State Fair (Sept. 14th, 2010)

I haven't been to a state fair since I was in band in high school and we went there to perform (and that only happened my freshman year). When I heard that the Utah State Fair was in town, I suggested to Ben that we go since we hadn't gone before and it would be something different. We almost decided not to go, but I'm glad we did and Ben actually really enjoyed it!

There were, of course, tons of vendors selling their products,cheap, yet expensive, carnival rides (we didn't buy the ride pass and individual rides were crazy expensive...therefore we didn't even ride the Ferris wheel like we wanted to),

other fun attractions,

lots of farm animals,

This was the biggest, fattest cow I have ever seen, and the pictures don't even do it justice!! (Please forgive the specks of dust that showed up in these two photos)

and tons of pricey, fattening food. Luckily, we ate pizza in the car as we drove (yes, we really did! ha!), so we weren't as tempted by the food. We did splurge, however, on some Dippin' Dots and a yummy Funnel Cake! They even had a sea lion show (which we missed...)and a comedian show (which we were at, causing us to miss the sea lion show...and it wasn't really even worth it--only semi-funny).

I did not have my nice 20x zoom camera, so this isn't very clear. Also, for any of you reading this that work at Brick Oven...does this guy not remind you of Dan Bowman?! Especially from a distance, he just looked so much like him! Similar build, similar mannerisms, and even joked kinda like Dan. It was weird!

Then Ben and I were able to be on the KSL5 news! Okay, not really, but they had a set-up where you could sit behind the desk, have the bright lights shining on you, use the microphone, and read the teleprompter, all while it was displayed on a TV screen there. It was pretty neat.

All in all, we had a really good time just being there and will most likely go again!