Fair Times

Last night, Corey and I finally got a chance to go to the state fair! I was super excited because I'd been thinking about all the divine fair foods I was going to devour. I didn't even get any pictures of our food!!

I get sad walking by most of the animals and imagining how lonely it must be to be traveling with the fair. When I'm trying not to think about those things (and those poor elephants... don't get me started!) I actually really enjoy the fair. I love walking around, looking at the art installments and pretty lights. One of my favorite things is feeding the goats! They're so daggum cute. One of them had his head out of the fence so I went right up to him and he just laid his head in my hand. I wanted to take him home!

The only downside is what a total ripoff it is. I can't imagine having kids to take and entertain every year, especially when they're in school and beg you to take them because all the other kids are going. As an adult, you kinda need an "end of the year" savings fund just for all the holidays and money spending involved to have a good time in the last quarter of the year!

Have any of you been to the fair this year? Leave a link to your post in the comments, I'd love to see the pictures! :)

Soda City Market

This past Saturday, I finally got a chance to revisit the Soda City Market! I've been working every Saturday for almost two months, so I was excited to finally get out there again. Corey thought he had drill, so I was going to go alone, but he called me and said he didn't have it anymore and came to meet me there.

Before the pictures mislead you, I'll just explain what really went down. Grizzly is very well behaved and has awesome manners, but in public his training kinda disappears.  He doesn't listen, he pulls on the leash CONSTANTLY, and wants to sniff everyone that walks by. I'm trying to scope out these cool lamps made from vintage thermoses and take a picture, while he's pulling on his leash and the creator is describing his process.

We walk away from the scene and Grizzly meets a German Shepherd. They don't like each other all that much so we reroute our path and turn around. I'm dodging jelly samples but take a few minutes to seriously contemplate trying a Dahli Palmer (pictured above). He makes eye contact and I end up walking away. We finally make it to the end, and I'm snapping one last picture when an elderly man asks if we would like to be better gardeners. Well, duh!

He proceeded to describe his magazine, page by page. Ten minutes in, I fake a phone call and come back saying we have to go. Five minutes after that, Mr. Duck Man (I'm not being mean, he actually called himself that) is telling us how he fed a stray cat fried flounder at Lizard's Thicket that morning. I'm still thinking to myself about how he was eating fried flounder at eight in the morning. Ew.