We started off at the "Miracle of Birth" barn where, while we never saw any animals actually being born, we did see quite a few cute newborns. This wobbly lamb was fun to watch as it kept nudging it's mom.
Here's a picture from the Grandstand - at least some things served on a stick at the fair are not bad for you - oh wait...it's fried:
Here's another shot of the fair from the Grandstand:
After getting all the milk you can drink for a buck, Sweet Martha's cookies, and cheese curds, we went to lunch. We decided to try one of the old fair standbys - the church dining hall. We went to Epiphany Dining Hall this time. The folks had chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, while I had a sloppy joe:
Here's a shot of the dining hall:
And me posing with my waiting-to-be-eaten plate of food:
We of course had to stop at Empire Commons where the Dairy Association takes up half the building. For those of you who've never made it to the fair, we have a teen beauty pageant each year and the winner is named Princess Kay of the Milky Way. She and her runners-up are awarded with a huge block of butter that is carved into a bust of their likeness - well, an approximate likeness. This runner up I named Velma because she looked like she should have been hanging out with Shaggy and Scooby:
Here's the winner, Miss Princess Kay of the Milky Way, wearing her lovely tiara:
These girls sit in a cooler with a parka as the sculptress (also donning a parka) sits with her butter knife working her magic. All in all it was a good day at the fair. I generally don't go but once or twice a year if that, but I thought today that some year it would be an interesting sociological experiment to go every day of the fair's run and track the vibe. But I think I might get violently ill if I spent too much time there - the smell of fried food still lingers.
5 comments:
You know what vibe I always get from the fair, even miles away? Retard. That's the vibe I get.
I definitely got my overload, years ago, floor directing at the fair for local TV broadcasts.
I pulled double-duty as floor director and female-anchor-stalker-buffer.
I never saw much of the fair beyond what was going on around our booth, but my sense was always that it was a bunch of families for whom it was the ONLY outing of the year.
Fresh fried FRUIT? Oh, MN, my heart longs for you.
If you go back again, eat some corn on the cob for me. Yum.
Hey dude! This made me miss the state fair big time.
Loved reading your entry on the Vermeer piece and also found your Wrongful Death post...um...amusing.
Miss you!
T
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