Today we took the boys to the State Fair. Nancy, Angela, and Jayden went with us too. It was a long day (we were there for 7 hours!), but we had lots of fun. Since we didn't arrive until 11:30, Brody was "starving" (at least that's what he told us) and wanted to eat right away. He told us that he wanted corn dogs...easy enough to find at a fair. 
Mike was really looking forward to checking out the tractors and climbing on them with Brody. Well...at the Texas State Fair they don't let you climb on the tractors!!! They didn't even have big tractors and combines; and all of the little tractors at the fair had "Please Keep Off" signs on them. Mike was sooooo disappointed! 
We looked for the RV's and boats (another favorite of ours at the KS State Fair) and didn't find either! Our one must have fair food is roasted nuts (pecans & almonds). After searching several buildings, we stopped at an information booth to ask where we could find some roasted nuts. We were disappointed to find that they don't sell roasted nuts at the TX State Fair. We may have been disappointed, but Brody was having fun. He got to be a little farmer in the kiddie farm area. They dressed him up and then gave him chores to do (feeding animals, planting seeds, picking crops, and milking a cow). Then he drove a pedal tractor to the farmers market to sell the fruits of his labor. He earned a dollar for his hard work and then got to buy a snack at the general store! It was pretty cool!
Brody wasn't the only one having fun...Barrett was full of grins too!
Angela was smiling big when she finally got the fried smores that she'd been drooling over! 
Mike and I were holding out for a fried snickers or fried banana split, however, we never found the vendors that sold them! Yet another mook!By the time we went thru the animal buildings, the petting zoo, the auto show, several other buildings, and watched a peculiar dog show, we were all exhausted!
Brody started telling us he was hungry again and said he wanted tacos for dinner. We stopped at Taco Bueno on the way home for a yummy dinner. I think everyone will sleep good tonight!
5 comments:
Sounds like you had fun but will have to find some new things to look forward to at the Texas State Fair. Maybe you can come back to the Kansas State Fair sometime to enjoy all the things you don't have in Texas!
i'm sorry about all the fair mooks! i wish you had been able to find the fried banana split-it was so good! not that it helps you now, but it was in the auto show building. i love that sweet picture of tired brody and mike. it's so cute!
You need to move back to KS!! haha Still sounds like a great day though. YAY for Bueno!
i agree with you...roasted nuts would be yummy at the fair! i was disappointed with the food as well. like us, y'all stopped somewhere to eat on the way home (which is WAY cheaper!) glad you had fun!
I guess every fair has food that they are famous for. In KS it's the nuts, in MN it's everything's on a stick, and in TX it's all fried! I love the pic with Brodie looking so tired at the end.
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