Minnesota State Fair 2009

The crowd.

Jack and I spent a day at the Minnesota State Fair this week. It's called "The Great Minnesota Get Together" and it's one of the biggest state fairs in the nation.

We haven't gone for years and I guess we decided we'd better figure out why. Now, I know people who are religious about the State Fair. Wouldn't miss it for the world. Visit every exhibit and building and eat pronto pups and stuff-on-a-stick until they're sick.

That's just not us. I like the exhibits and enjoy people watching. The weather this year was perfect. Not hot and humid and we pretty much just strolled around. I took a gazillion photos but most of them lost in the translation.

Believe it or not, these eggs were carved from honeycomb!

The monorail. I wish we'd have taken it but we didn't.

This is one of those times when "you had to see it to believe it". A sculpture of all the junk retrieved from rivers in Minnesota this past year. Seriously. Look at the size of the people standing next to it! Sad.

We were only there a minute but I grabbed some info from the sponsor (Adopt-A-River) and here's a link to the Adopt-A-River website.

We were lucky enough to see our sweet little twin grandkids and took them on the carousel. That was a highlight, of course. Jack bought some of the very famous Sweet Martha chocolate chip cookies and we shared with them. They really are delicious. Seems I read that Sweet Martha pulled in a couple of million bucks last year. I'm happy for her.

We watched part of a newscast. That was interesting. Came close to the midway but didn't catch any rides. I had a wild rice burger that was underdone and Jack had a gen-u-ine Chicago dog. I wanted a funnel cake but we couldn't for the life of us find one. If there's a funnel cake kiosk there it's definitely not in a good location. And whoever is running it must be losing their shirts!

That was it...no cheese curds, nothing on a stick, no races or entertainment. We're pretty boring fairgoers. But we had a good time.