State Fair Fun - Salad-on-a-stick

Gene and I went to the Iowa State Fair today since he hadn't been since college and until last week, neither had I. It also helped that Gene got free tickets from Kaplan, because there was no way we were paying $20 to get into the fair. I don't care how much you love food on a stick, it isn't worth that!

We walked through some of the livestock barns, and we saw the Avenue of Breeds so my city boy would know there was more than one type of cow. Of course the only one he cared about were the Angus beef cows and wondered where they were selling cuts of last year's losers.

We walked around the Varied Industries building and registered for a free water softener, got a free Iowa Democrats fan. It was interesting the the Iowa Democrats table was bustling, but there was only one couple at the Iowa Republican's table, and they were just registering for the give-a-way for free ISU footbal tickets. We saw the prettiest and uglist cakes, rode the SkyWay thingie, and saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat done to interpretive dance. We went through all of the Cultural Center and were wowed by all the cool photos and paintings.

But, of course, the most important thing to do at the fair - we ate, we ate a lot. Between the two of us we consumed: a gyro, a giantic cone of cotton candy, a corn dog, two Mt. Dews, an iced tea, a lemonade, a salad-on-a-stick, and a funnel cake. I'd like to point out that I had the salad-on-a stick, though Gene did have to pull me away from the dill pickle-cream cheese-corned beef thingie on a stick - it sounded really, really good :).

Now, I am blogging and looking at baby clothes patterns and my big, strong man of a husband is completely comotose on the sofa! Wow, the pregnant lady completely wore out the 6'4" husband to the point of sheer and utter exhaustion. Ahhh the fun of the Fair.