Taking Food Too Far

Have any of you been to your state fair this year? I know, fairs are kind of gross and dirty, but they are also quite entertaining. We went with our neighbors to the Texas State Fair on Wednesday. This was my very first experience at the fair. I was in for quite the adventure. Essentially, all you do there is eat and eat, play some games while your food settles like a rock in your stomach, ride the occasional ride, and then eat some
more. I felt like grease was oozing out of me when we left. Here is what all we tried: Corney Dog (this was the best thing that I ate), a chicken finger, a tamale, nachos, corn on the cob, and a fried Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich. We were big fat pigs! Disgusting the amount of food consumed, I am fully aware of this. The good thing is that we would get this stuff and then all share it, so it wasn't like we were eating full portions. Again, I still realize how gross this is. Here is the thing though, there was so many foods to try it was totally overwhelming. EVERYTHING is fried. Here are a few examples that just floored me - fried avocado, fried Snickers, fried Twinkies, fried PB&J, and here is the real kicker: fried Coke. That is right my friend, fried Coke. I saw people buying it by the truck load. It was basically a glass of Coke with some fried dough in it. DISGUSTING! And we wonder why we are such an obese country.


The main thing that I did enjoy about the fair was the petting zoo. It was fabulous. My favorites were the goats. I swear every goat was pregnant and about to pop or had just had a baby. Those goats are "busy", if you know what I mean. The baby goats were the sweetest and cutest things ever. I did get mad at the goats though because they were really mean to one another.
If one was eating, another would come up and head butt it with its horns, really really hard. One goat was even bleeding. I did not like this. I especially did not like one of the bigger goats doing this to a set of brand new baby twin goats. In fact, I told on that goat to the man who was watching them. He clearly thought I was a lunatic, but it really made me mad. Those babies weren't doing one thing wrong. He also had no concern whatsoever for the poor bleeding goat. RUDE!

We saw lots of other animals, like cows, buffalo, llamas, sheep, pigs, ducks, and kangaroos. They might have been wallabies, I don't really know. Here is what I do know. One of them was a momma with a baby in her pouch. At one point she was hopping around and the baby fell out, at which point I realized that it was WAY too big to be in the pouch still. The little one kept following the mom around and trying to get back in the pouch and the mom would hop away. This went on for 5 minutes or so until the baby just forced its way back in. I was seriously stunned by the fact that this big baby fit back in the pouch. That poor momma.

Okay, I think I have rambled about the fair long enough. It was just such an interesting experience. We did comment about bringing Lucy next year and how she would be 14 months old. That was just crazy to me. Wow. The pink stripes that say Perfect is my new favorite item in Lucy's closet. I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend. A huge congratulations to Mrs. Broccoli Guy who got her travel approval and will be in Vietnam very soon to get her son!!!!!! YEAH!