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After missing the state fair last year, I was determined to go this year, if for no other reason than that I seriously needed an Elephant Ear fix.
Yesterday, with absolutely perfect fair weather (sunny and 70s), the whole family (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nycgadgetgirl, our parents, and my niece T) set off to spend the day at the fair. First, we went to Fishers and caught the fair train, thereby avoiding the need to deal with parking two cars at the fairgrounds. A leisurely ride took us within a short walk of the main gate, and then we were in. Spent about six hours there, and probably didn't make it to more than a third of the fairgrounds, but everybody seemed to have a good time and I got my fair food fix by following a lunch of chicken quesadilla (protein!) with an elephant ear and a lemon shake-up, then another elephant ear at the end of the day, just for good measure. We saw gorgeous draft horses (Percherons and Clydesdales both under saddle and in the 8-horse hitch event... six entries, eight horses each... wow that was a lot of hoofs and tack!), wandered the midway while T and Daddy rode rides and played games, and generally did everything I'd hoped to do for the day except I never remembered to grab an ear of corn.
The sugar buzz from the elephant ears may last me for another day, though. Whee!
Yesterday, with absolutely perfect fair weather (sunny and 70s), the whole family (
nycgadgetgirl, our parents, and my niece T) set off to spend the day at the fair. First, we went to Fishers and caught the fair train, thereby avoiding the need to deal with parking two cars at the fairgrounds. A leisurely ride took us within a short walk of the main gate, and then we were in. Spent about six hours there, and probably didn't make it to more than a third of the fairgrounds, but everybody seemed to have a good time and I got my fair food fix by following a lunch of chicken quesadilla (protein!) with an elephant ear and a lemon shake-up, then another elephant ear at the end of the day, just for good measure. We saw gorgeous draft horses (Percherons and Clydesdales both under saddle and in the 8-horse hitch event... six entries, eight horses each... wow that was a lot of hoofs and tack!), wandered the midway while T and Daddy rode rides and played games, and generally did everything I'd hoped to do for the day except I never remembered to grab an ear of corn.The sugar buzz from the elephant ears may last me for another day, though. Whee!
