A day at the Fair, Texas Style

To celebrate my precious bug turning 2, we spent the day at the State Fair and like good Texans we did the fair "Texas Style"...

A "Texas Style" trip to the fair must include:

1. A visit with the biggest Texan in Texas; the iconic Big Tex:

2. A little hunting, is it duck season already?

Trying the "Duck Pond" on the Midway:

Picking a good duck:

I WON!

3. Some horse back riding:

Riding the carousel with Mommy and Daddy:

2 is not too young to start riding alone, this is Texas after all...

Riding the horse all by myself:

4. Driving a Monster Truck

Driving a hot pink truck with Mommy, can't get more Texan than that!

5. Flying out to the ranch in a private plane:

6. Spending time on an exotic ranch (Think exotic animals not scantily clad women)

Feeding a mini horse:

That's a lot of horns, even for a Longhorn fan!

Watch where you point those things!

A camel, a zebra, and a tortoise....so many ways to go with this one!

What's a ranch with exotics without an ostrich???

Birthday week continues...tomorrow Princess and Frog party!

So un-FAIR

Yesterday we went to the Texas/OU game at the State Fair. The fair is known for it's strange fried foods...this year's "highlights" were fried beer, fried margaritas, and fried butter (OMG...I feel sick just thinking about it). I was not brave enough to try any of these delights but Adam did try the fried beer and reported back that it was disgusting. Considering it was fried Guinness I could have told you it would be disgusting so no surprises here.

The game totally sucked. Texas played like poo and lost the game on penalties. Overall it was one of the sorriest fair experiences ever. Here is the recap:

Negatives:

1. We lost the game

2. None of the food was good except the sweet potato tornado (think curly sweet potato chips)

Positives:

1. A math deficient cashier gave me my payment tickets as change; as in I paid with 20 tickets for 2 beers that cost 16 tickets. Instead of giving me back 4 tickets she gave me back 16. I told her she was wrong and she just shrugged. Ok...thanks for the $1 beers.

2. Kelly had a super awesome route that avoided most traffic to/from the fair

Hindsight, I should have sold our tickets BEFORE we lost to UCLA and enjoyed the game at home. At least their would have been better food and I could have mourned my Longhorns second loss of the season in the privacy of my own home...

Shari and Kelly racing down the slide: