Fair, Food, Fun, Family, and more FOOD

My mom and sister Jessie got in last Thursday to bring Jessie to college at North Central, but before doing that we all went to the State Fair with Jeremy's family on Friday. We had a blast eating, seeing the sights, hanging out, and eating some more. Here is our day in pictures.

Here is our stroller caravan. Our girls on the right (maneuvering the double stroller through fair crowds isn't the easiest, thanks Jer!), cousin Michael in the middle, and their friend's little boy Mason on the left.


My mom and Bri.
Jeremy's mom and Emily.

Darryl, Wendy and Michael eating funnel cake.

Jessie taking Bri down the giant slide. Even though I didn't do it, everybody said it was so fun and pretty fast! I love this picture of Jessie and the girls. We're so glad that Aunt Jessie is finally close!

The first thing we do when we arrive at the fair each year is head straight for the cheese curd stand (for Jeremy's sake). I like them, too, but a few is enough. This year Jer got everyone else hooked on them; I think our group alone bought 8 orders of cheese curds over the course of about 5 hours.

When we saw this stand we just had to take a picture. Jer's absolute worst food is pot roast, and when he saw this place selling "pot roast sundaes" he had to show his support by puking in the nearby garbage can. Lovely.

Besides eating, our next favorite thing to do at the fair is see the animals. Here is Bri visiting the biggest pig and piglets.

The baby lambs are one of the cutest animals in the Miracle of Birth center, which we love.

Sure girls, go ahead and put your mouths around the bars here; I'm sure they're very sanitary.

One of my favorite things is the alpacas. I always joke that one day I will own a pair of alpacas, I think they are so cute. I will raise them and my mom will have a yarn/knitting business using their fur. Here is my mom seeing that a skein of alpaca yarn goes for $62 (we're talking one small ball of yarn!) The funniest thing about this picture is that my mom (on the right) and the other 2 ladies (that we don't know) are like triplets. Jean capris, pink and denim shirts, and gray hair. Jeremy said I just had to get a picture of that! This is apparently the look of "older" ladies into knitting!

Besides cheese curds, we had a steak kebab, deep fried twinkie, buffalo on a stick, fried fruit on a stick, kettle corn, and of course Sweet Martha's Cookies.
By the end of the state fair, there will be so many of these cookies that are basically part of the pavement. See what I mean? And this was only day 2 of the fair.

Emily and I ended our day at the fair by taking a ride on this little skyway. Emily had a blast. And so did Bri waving at us down below. Until the end when we came out, and Bri tried to go in the gate saying, "My turn!" Poor Bri, next year!

As you can see, it was a great day at the Great Minnesota Get-Together.