It's Fair Time

Knowing we wanted to go the Fair this year since we don't know when we will be back in Iowa in August I bought advance tickets. We decided last minute to go on Saturday night since it would be cooler and we had the time. We ran home, changed clothes (we had both been at work) and headed out. The first thing we wanted to do was eat so we grabbed the famous smoked turkey leg (the first of many delicious items to be eaten) and headed in to watch horse pulling. Neither Eric nor I had ever seen horse pulling so we thought it would be a cultural expeirence. I missed the first one thinking it was going to be really slow but they hook the horses up let them go and it is all done in about 5 seconds. We didn't stay the whole time since it does get a little repitious.

As we were leaving horse pulling we ran into Tyler and Margaret from our ward. We had talked about going together but never did find a time that would work. We both decided last minute to go and ran into each other at the fair. It was a blast. Being an Iowa native I had to show these Utah folks where to go so we headed off to see the buttar cow and astronauts. My favorite part was the buttar tv and popcorn.


Then it was time to see the animals. Tyler wanted to see all the really big animals and I liked seeing all the little animals. One of the cutest was a little pigmy goat baby. It had curly hair.



I also like the piggies. I didn't get to see the babies because the line was too long so I had to settle for the normal size one.


One thing that was new to me was the "World's Smallest Cow". I know it is hard to tell from the picture but they are little cows. I thought they were adorable-much cuter than the biggest bull that was like 1 1/2 tons.


At one point Tyler and Margaret were looking at hats and boots so Eric and I took Shannon around to keep her happy. I thought it would be cute to have her sit on a saddle. You can't really see it in the picture but she is on a little saddle that would bit a miniature horse.



We finished the evening by watching a hypnotist. It was really funny and a great way to end the evening. Here is the only picture of the two of us. Sorry it is so dark.