Fair Day

 

What a busy weekend! We kicked off the fun on Friday with a family day at the State Fair of Texas!!! We had been planning to go but hadn't made a definite plan and then Eva let us all sleep in until after 9 AM (shocking!)...we got up, cozied around in our jammies for awhile, had some breakfast... and then decided that we could still pack a quick cooler of snacks and hit the road to be at the fair by noon. It was a spontaneous decision that worked out so great!

This was Eva's first trip to the fair. I grew up going every year on my school's fair day (or whenever my mom would check me out of school!) and I was soooo excited to share this with Eva. I know that she won't remember going but we will always remember taking her.

We started off the afternoon by seeing the Dog Show and then visited the animals so that Eva could pet them. She wasn't up for posing for photos that day, I guess she was more interested in the animals, but she did enjoy seeing all of the new animals. There is an animal called a zedonk that is a cross breed between a zebra and a donkey. We were petting it and the zedonk tried to nibble on Eva's shoe! Yikes! Thankfully it backed off and no shoes were damaged.

Then it was time for a Fletcher's Corny Dog. I meant to take this photo before I ate so much of it but you know how corny dogs don't seem to last long. This is probably one of the few times that I enjoy eating a corny dog.

I wanted to get a picture of me and Eva enjoying our wonderful family day at the fair....

 ...she wanted to walk. We tried to find places where we could get her out of the stroller to let her roam every once in a while. She's so fearless that she would probably just walk off into the midway to make new friends if we'd let her.

Guess what used to be here? Or should I say who? That's right. Big Tex. We arrived about 2 hours after the tragic burning. As they wheeled away the last of him, Ryan turned to me somberly and said, "May he rest in pieces." Haha, okay seriously. Yes, it was fun to see Big Tex but some of the NATIONAL media coverage is a little bit extreme. People placed flowers on the site and a lady on the news was crying. These people know that Big Tex was never a real person right? He wasn't like a statue of a wonderful man. He was just a statue. That will be rebuilt. Okay, off my soapbox now.

This was a really cool pumpkin carving though. I like the man that carves awesome pumpkins. Maybe the State Fair needs to make a statue of him.

Howdy, folks! We love the State Fair!

Every year my family always went to see the Bird Show. You know the big bird is going to fly down from the gold car on the ferris wheel. You know it's going to swipe somebody's money. You know a lady is going to fall in the pond after getting "scared by the bird." The gimmicks may be the same but I still enjoy seeing the amazing birds. And I'm not even a bird person.

Wiggle worm. She didn't care as much about the birds. She was more interested in crawling over the diaper bag and eating the bench.

Speaking of eating - these were our fair treats. If you don't know anything about the State Fair of Texas let me tell you, they FRY EVERYTHING. Bubble gum, beer, cheesecake, butter? All come in fried varieties. We decided to try the fried tres leches cake and fried brownies. The cake was fine but the brownies were definitely the winner! Really they were so rich we could have just split an order. I would best describe them as warm, goey brownies inside of a funnel cake like coating. I wish I was eating them again right now.

The best part of the day. I took Eva on her first carousel ride! About halfway through she decided that she was done and I had to hold her in my arms as we stood and went round and round. I didn't mind. Seeing her smile in awe as she went up and down on the horse while the music played was such a sweet moment.