Our State Fair is a great State Fair...

Well, we all headed out last Friday to visit the Great State Fair of Texas, home of all things deep fried including but not limited to fried butter, fried Coke, fried beer, fried grilled cheese, fried cheesecake, fried pickles, fried Reeses PB cups, fried Frito pie, fried bacon, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseam (literally). It was an interesting day. I don't like crowds and excessive noise, and Dave is on diet which means all the fried things he wanted to try were off limits, so I wasn't sure if we were going to have much fun, but Ellie wanted to go so off we went. The first 3/4 of the day were quite pleasant. We watched some acrobats, browsed a auto show, and petted the animals at the exotic animal petting barn (don't pet the ostrich-it bites). We met up with some friends and split up- Dave off to the Truck Show and Ellie, Leah and I off to the kiddie farm experience. After we finished that we had some time to kill before meeting back up, so we wandered around the cow barn together. Honestly, that was my favorite part of the day. It was quiet, there were very few people, and I happen to enjoy looking at cows. We met back up and watched a birds of the world show, and we should have ended the night there. Ellie was getting tired and I was pretty worn out too. But no, we had paid our admission and by golly, we were going to see everything! So we had some dinner and I decided I am getting old- not much there at the fair looked appetizing. I ended up paying way too much for greasy onion fries and a bland chicken sandwich. Blech. I should have gone with the deep-fried frito pie which is what I really wanted. I don't really remember much after that- we headed towards the midway to use our last sheet of tickets and it all became a blur of crowds, noise, and sore feet. We ended with the parade which was nice and short (or possibly nice because it was short) and then headed back to our car, with Ellie whining the whole way about how we never let her do anything fun. Nice. I'm glad we went but I think I've had enough fair to last me the next couple years.