Adventures through pictures.: A Fair-Filled Weekend!

To keep with the tradition of using all of our down time doing as much as possible instead of actually taking a second to just take a deep breath...Graham and I went back down to Des Moines to enjoy the Iowa State Fair in all it's glory! Back in our famous Des Moines Register article days, the marketing director of the Iowa State Fair mailed us two free admission tickets. At least they recognize WHO we are up here. We drive down following some friends to park and take the $2 bus over to the fair (we are WAY too cheap to park close) and immediately head for the food station. I was of course quickly distracted by the margarita tent and after convincing the lady that I was 21 (I had left my ID back in Cedar Falls...of course.) we enjoyed our margaritas in the summer sun only to realize all too late that we had actually not paid for them. I honestly still feel a little guilty, but you know...they forgot to ask right??

20 Fun Happenings post-Margaritas:

1. Footlong Corndog. Enough said.
2. Bloomin' Onion.
3. About 15 bottles of water.
4. Sweet Potato Fries.
5. 2 Iowa Pulled Pork BBQ Sandwiches with Baked Beans and Cole Slaw.
6. High-Diving Show
7. Awesome live music
8. Most awesome live music including: Tone Loc and Vanilla Ice FREE live concert. I know, you're jealous. Top 10 most hilarious experiences of my life.
9. Chair lift across fair when we were too fat to walk.
10. Double Ferris Wheel (My fave!)
11. Disappointment in the mullet turnout.
12. Saw a cow made out of butter.
13. Walked 10 miles. (Or maybe like 4 but it felt like we walked for 6 hours straight)
14. Free try to throw a baseball in a bucket = success. Too bad they won't give you a prize on the free try.
15. World's smallest cow.
16. More baby pygmy goats (I'm seriously going to take one home with me one day)
17. World's largets Boar
18. More types of corn than I knew existed on display.
19. Missed NC State Ice Cream Stand
20. Took bus back to our car way later than expected because we were having too much fun.

My camera was dying so I didn't get to document as much as I wanted to, but here are a few highlights!