7:20PM - A Fair Day
Bill & I made a trek down to the Arizona State Fair this morning. We parked by the Capital again cuz we're cheap. We arrived around 10am and did a bit of looking around. I remember in years past, MUCH more stuff going on at the fair than what I saw today. All the yummy food was there. There wasn't anything new & exciting in the "deep fried" category, so I wasn't tempted. [Deep-fried Dr Pepper came close. So did the deep-fried cheesecake. However, I didn't cave...] I got the corn dog out of the way first. It was made with turkey dogs, so I guess that made it more healthy...or as much as it COULD be. We went on a couple of the rides. Our yearly tradition is the "log ride". We got nicely soaked. I got an ear of roasted corn & was given a second one at no charge because the first had a section that had gotten burned. Both were yummy (not the burned part). We continued over to the coliseum and roamed around in there - looking at the art exhibits.
My brother talked me into going on BOTH of the Ferris Wheels, which did nasty things as far as my fear of heights is concerned. I tensed up pretty bad on the first one - the 2nd wasn't quite as bad....it was more of a "box", as opposed to an "upside-down saucer" like the first was. I had to soothe my shatterred nerves with fresh-squeezed lemonade. It was yummy.
We went back into the Commercial Exhibit Bldg and roamed around in there looking at all of the "As Seen on TV"-type stuff they were selling. I visited the Watkins booth and was a bit disappointed by the selection, but added some things to my baking stash anyway.
The concert tonight was the Steve Miller Band, whom I am not especially interested in [edit: they were there the night BEFORE we were there.], so we went for a final roam around, I got some of my diet busting fry bread w/ cheese before we went back out to the bus and went back to my truck & left.
It was warm & sunny outside (mid/upper 80's) & felt nice.
Back to my usual dull boring routine now.......
tired