Friday night at the fair!

Last night we decided to have some adventures at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair. My only experience with state fairs has been the Texas State Fair. The Texas State Fair has your traditional state fair food fare, a car show, and a performer. I had many a good time in college at the state fair, gorging myself with fried foods in hopes that I wouldn't need to be carried out in a stretcher. My hopes were high since I read earlier in the day that Phil Vassar was performing at 7:30 pm and they were featuring New Zealand Meat Pies (turkey, vegetables, mashed potatoes, and gravy in a flaky pie). I had no idea who Phil Vassar was but what the heck!

So our adventure began at 8:45 pm. We had already eaten dinner at Tacos Juanita with Chelsea, Tim, Greg and myself, so only a handful in our party (Chelsea and Tim) were on a mission to find fried goodness. We first checked out the animals. I had never seen a cow that close before and was happy to scratch that one off the bucket list. When we walked into the goat pen, something got us thinking that maybe they'd just finished having a goat fashion show (see pictures below).

We think this was their Spring Collection.

After that I got on a ride called the "Firebolt". It spun me around and around and got increasingly faster as it did so. This was not good considering the fact that I had a pretty big mexican dinner (at Tacos Juanita) 15 minutes before getting on this ride. Alas, I did not puke but could not walk a straight line for about 10 minutes.

We then made our first fried food stop. Chelsea got a corn dog (AND FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF IT!) which was very good. Tim passed on the fried food, but instead got a chocolate dipped cheesecake on a stick. It was very delicious.

The rest of our time we spent walking around, perusing through the exhibition of student work from schools in Chippewa Valley. They had some very impressive work to present and gave us ideas for our classrooms next year. We did a "fair" amount of people watching and before we knew it, it was 10:30 pm! We decided to call it a night, figuring our time at the fair was a success. Here are some more cool pictures of our time.