STATE FAIR TIME

The state fair starts tomorrow! Yippee! I love to go to the fair! We have a great fair here. It's nice and clean and big and interesting and fun! It's a good place to take the family (if you have one!) and have a great time! I used to love to go for the rides (that now make me nauseous) and the junk food (that now makes me fat). Now I enjoy going just to stroll around and look at the displays (that used to make me bored), the new cars, the home and garden building, the arts & crafts building, the cooking contests and demonstrations, etc. We like to go out there during the first few days when everything is still new and fresh. It is "fair weather" - it always turns cooler or rains the week the fair gets here. Right now, it's just nice and pleasant. Could be cool at night though. Last year we took Granddaddy out there with us and I pushed him around in a wheelchair for .... get this .... SEVEN HOURS!!!! Yes, my hands were killing me and I was exhausted by days end! But he was having a good time and so were we so we stayed! I kept saying "are you tired? do you want to go?" and he'd say "oh, no! I'm not tired at all, I'm just fine!" Finally, I had to say, "ok, I'M the tired one, we're gonna have to go!" :) I always have to have a corn dog. Too bad a corn dog and a Coke now add up to $6.50, a ridiculous price to pay for that! Well, that was last year, it could be $8 this year! We used to eat a lot more of the junk, like funnel cakes, cotton candy, candied apples, fried cheese on a stick, etc. but now, by the time you eat all that and pay the price for it, you could've had a great steak dinner at Outback or somewhere nice for that amount of money! So we cut that out. I might have to take an afternoon off work on one of hubby's days off so we can go out there and check it all out.