State Fair

I can't believe summer has already come and gone. The first half went soooooo slow waiting on the arrival of Anna. And the last six weeks have just whizzed by. But end of summer means State Fair time - something I look forward to all year. In fact, I'm looking forward to next year's fair already.

We decided to go twice this year since we only went once last year with the child and we didn't get a chance to see and do the stuff that WE (adults) wanted to do. The first time we took Meredith and Anna. The second time was just me and Greg.

I wanted to document the food we got, but I totally forgot! Between our two trips, we had mini doughnuts, cheese curds, fresh french fries, fried pickles, fudge puppies, more cheese curds, apple dumpling, turkey sandwich, corn on the cob, fried ravioli, a rice kristie treat, and sweet martha's cookies. Hmmm...I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff too.

We started off the day with some mini doughnuts and went to the kidway. We made sure to get the state fair bargain book in advance because there is a $6 coupon off a 20 ride tickets and we knew we had to take Meredith on some rides.

I can't get blogger to rotate this photo but it's cute. She loves the swings.

And then the fake Blue's Clues ride with the hydraulics.

Anna didn't go on any rides. She slept.
Another one I can't get blogger to rotate.

She wanted to go down the big slide. And being the cheapskate I am, I told her that this slide at the kidway WAS the big slide because I was about ready to be done with our ride tickets and I didn't want to shell out another $4 on the real big slide. I can't wait until I can't fool her like that anymore.

We are klassy. She went on the NASCAR ride with the Budweiser advertisements all over the place. And if it weren't klassy enough, it had Hooker advertisiments all over the place too (I have no idea what Hooker is, but it's a bit disturbing on a kids ride). All the while, the Kidz Bop version of Kesha's song Tic Tock was playing while the ride was going.

A picture of me. Poor Anna gets gypped. She doesn't get to partake in the gluttony that goes on at the fair. She only gets a bottle.