Fun at the Fair

We made it to the State Fair of Texas this year. Scott and I went two years ago when I was pregnant with Madeline as volunteers at the petting zoo, but we skipped it last year. The state fair is a pretty big deal here, and runs for about a month every fall.

I seriously can NOT get this child to look at the camera!!!

Parker College has a booth at the fair every year to recruit patients, and Scott was able to work at it last Friday. Madeline and I decided to meet him at the end of his shift. For some reason, it's always kind of a mess driving down there. I got the directions off of their website (1st mistake), and now I'm pretty sure we used the same directions two years ago because I remember them being wrong. Downtown Dallas is not exactly a place you want to get turned around in. The driving, parking, walking thing was pretty much a hastle, but once we actually found Scott we ended up having a great time.

We took Madeline to the Children's Barnyard Petting Zoo that is sponsored each year by the hospital I work for. She LOVED it. When we first walked in, she kept saying "COW, COW, COW!!!", like she couldn't believe there were actually real cows there. She got to pet the cutest little baby goat, although I never could get a decent picture of it.

She wanted to feed the animals, but once they got their mouths close to the shovel, she would drop it. By the end she was starting to get the hang of it.

One of the main reasons people go to the state fair is for the food. Fried food. Each year there are two main food awards given out. This year the best taste award went to fried peaches and cream. The most interesting food award went to fried butter. Yes, fried butter. I guess they were butter balls with the option of different flavors that were battered and fried. That I didn't try, but I was really exited for the peaches and cream. After consulting our map and walking around for quite some time, the peaches and cream were nowhere to be found. So, I settled on a previous year's best taste winner, fried cookie dough. It was as good and rich as it sounds. Scott, being the health guru that he is of course chose the corn-on-the-cob. It wasn't exactly health food, though, with the butter literally dripping off of it.

We dropped a lot of money in a pretty short period of time, but seeing as this just may be our last State Fair of Texas, it was worth it!