After being deprived of going to the state fair for 23 years, Kelsey finally got her fair experience. And she 'freaking loved it!'
This was Kelsey and I's first non-mini-van ride of the weekend. Because there were so many of us going, we had to take two cars. Kelsey, Brian, Airica and I rode in Airica's car, and the rest of the family went in the van. The fair is in the Palmer Fairgrounds. The main point of these fairgrounds is just for the state fair.
This day of the fair was sponsored by some of the mining companies, so we got mining hats as we walked in. And we started of the Fair experience with rat gambling, where you bet a quarter on which color whole the rat will crawl into. Sam actually did pretty well, he made $20! We then decided to do all the rides first, and then eat later. We did a few rides, and managed to get Papa P on the Tilt-a-Whirl. Yes, he's a screamer! And we're pretty sure everyone at the Fair was very aware of it.
Most of the time we were at the fair we were all spread out because we all had different agendas. While mom and the rest of the adults checked out all the booths, us kids were hanging out and doing the rides. We did all meet up for the SBS Lumberjack Show though. It was very amazing to see how fast and precise these guys were at cutting the trees. They were amazing with the axes, chainsaws and just climbing straight up the logs.
Airica and I did the bungee jump slingshot. They sit you in that little chair and launch you into the air. It was simply amazing! I can't wait to do it again. Airica had a couple of 'what the hell am I doing in this chair' moments, but after it was done, she loved every bit of it just as much as I did!
After all the rides we decided to eat. Oh my gosh, eat we did. We started off at Dan's Tacos which you can only get once a year only at the fair. They are SO good. Right next door they were selling Corn fritters and the 6 of us we split two orders of them. A couple of booths down, they were selling curly just about everything that you could think of, so we ordered a plate of curly fries and doused them in nacho cheese and ate on our way to the chocolate covered bacon. Before you knock it, let me tell you... it was pretty damn good; yes, a little out there, but pretty good. Kelsey really enjoyed the elephant ear that she was eating up before we could finish the bacon.
We didn't stop eating yet. It's pretty intense, I know. In the next 3 hours, we managed to eat an oversized Denali Cream Puff, cheesecake in a cone, and Brian and I split a brat from the 5th Avenue brat guy down town on the way out of the fair.
After 8 hours at the fair, we drove home took naps, and got ready to go out that night! We started at McGinly's Pub downtown (which is becoming our regular spot to eat and drink good beer) and ended the night at the Woodshed watching a bunch of drunk people try and sing karaoke. It was a very good night.
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