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Fair Food


This was the last weekend of the Fair so we decided to check it out last night. Everyone has their favorite part of the Fair...the food


the rides 


the animals


the entertainment



the blue ribbon winners

 the old-fashioned farm competitions

…I'm not sure what mine is but I know it's not the food!  We have a term in our family when we go somewhere and the food is bad we'll say, "It's like Fair Food!" We just got overdosed on it when Nick and Lauren were in 4-H and we spent a lot of time at the Fair.

I'm only now just starting to enjoy going to the Fair again.  I actually ran into two moms from 4-H who are still volunteering in different animal sections.  It was fun visiting with them and hearing about their children as adults now when I still remember them as little 4-Hers.  I guess I'd have to say my favorite part of the Fair is the memories! It's fun remembering those 4-H days but I don't miss the work of it.  We actually stood and watched a lady milk her dairy goats for awhile remembering that routine.  She'd let one goat out of the pen…without any restraints…and it would just run down the aisle, turn the corner and jump onto the milking stand, all on it's own.  She didn't know we were watching from afar and just laughing as we remembered how the goats loved their milking stand!  

They mainly loved it because we fed them grain while they were getting milked. (bribing an animal with food is always a good thing!) The animal breeders are at the Fair now so all the animals are the top notch ones. So, besides the memories, my favorite part of the Fair is looking at the blue ribbon winners. I know how much work goes into everything, whether it be an animal entry or a homemade entry.



The work people do is always amazing to me, like spinning your own yarn and dying it for lots of colors.
Amazing!  I like looking at all the displays, too.


And so does Bruce.

And the food really isn't that bad anymore…if you know what to get.  We got the stir & fry chicken/veggies/soba noodles from the Hawaiian booth.


This place was always Nick's favorite booth - the mini donuts!


And the Idaho baked potato ice cream is still intriguing to me.

I just can't get over how much they appear like real baked potatoes!  They take a scoop of ice cream and sprinkle cocoa powder over it and split it down the middle. The whipped cream is the sour cream and the crushed oreo cookies and nuts is the salt and pepper.

I think it's been enough years gone by that I'm getting over my overdosed mentality of the Fair now.   It's fun being a paying customer.


Look!  It's Bubble Boy!

The other part of the Fair is the reminder that summer is over and fall is coming. I'm not ready for fall…I love summer and it was a fun summer this year but with football starting, school is starting, and now the Fair, I know summer is closing in on us. You can feel it in the air now.


Goodbye to a fun summer.  Fall adventures ahead.






  
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