what a rip off!

This past weekend my family and I went to the carnival. Just to get there and find out that now not only are they going to charge $20 for an armband but they are going to split the day into sessions. 11-5 or 5-11. Not knowing this I show up at 2:30 or so thinking we would have the whole afternoon to hang out there. So then I have to decide do I pay $20 per person for 2 and a half hrs come back at 5 when its packed with teenagers, or skip the carnival because its such a rip off. Well of course I couldn't skip the carnival because I would have made the kids cry, and I didn't want to let them go on a couple of rides and then tell them we had to leave because our session was over because again I would have crying kids, so I decided to come back at 5. This also made the kids cry because they didn't understand why we had to leave. It's a no win situation. Two out of the three kids were too short for any of the adult rides so there was like 5 rides they could go on. I was so furious with the stupid carnival by the end of it. I will not go back to that carnival ever again. Last year they charged $20 per day for arm bands and I had already felt that was a rip off, but a year later the price is doubled for the day. I have no clue how much it cost to run a carnival, however I'm going to guess that someone is making a huge profit. It would have cost just as much to spend the day at Michigan adventure thats including the water park. I guess I should have checked into the prices without the kids. Next time I wont waste my money.