So a local news station gave away free tickets to the fair for non-profit organizations. I work at one. They were only valid for one day. So I of course asked some family if they wanted to go so I could order. They said yes, I ordered, they forgot and couldn't go. So I freaked out, wanted someone to go, found someone to go. I met D down there and by then he was so exausted he was ready to go home. I unfortunately was too afraid to park too far in the ghetto, so I paid for parking. Dumb me. I know.
Anyways...you have to pay for tickets to ride rides. I wasn't interested. Maybe I would have wanted to go on the ferris wheel but not at night, I would have wanted to go up during the day.
Before much else, we went to see the figure 8 in the grand stands........... which by the way... YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY TO GET INTO THE GRAND STANDS!!!!
I was really confused by this.
But yeah. We were like an hour late so we missed most of the show. They did their 8 a few times. The orange car drifted really nice. One guy lost a wheel (almost, it was somehow still there but he couldn't really turn). Once that was over, we went to see the animals.
David said there were...
No lions, no tigers, but BEARS!!
Cool, huh? It gets better. That's right. Ya know, there's your typical cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, some weird funny looking breeds of chickens (i was too afraid to use camera yet for that...) and of course, turkeys. After about the third time telling a turkey that it looked like a great dinner; I realized that the people who were their caretakers were probably around and were probably PETA freaks...so I also saw this
really funny looking goose/turkey thing.... once again, too shy to take photos.
The girls had rode on an elephant, which we saw. Cool stuff. We kept searching for the "petting zoo" which was on the map, but this fair is completely un-navigable. The buildings say they are building ___ whatever, but we found out that is not the same with what building each map says it is. There was a 4-H building, which for some reason wasn't that cool. There was ba floriculture (sp) building. We ran into some of my co-workers. We ran into an x-coworker lying cheating stealing b****.....
We found the building FINALLY.
It was really cool!
There were BISON!
There were things that I can't remember the names of!! (Jack rabbit mixed with something else...it is a large rodent)
Another cool thing from Africa that I also can't remember the name of!!!
An OSTERICH that was pretty p.o.ed at david when he touched it. Sitting this thing was almost at eye level with me. I was afraid.
Oh. I guess I didn't get to take a picture of these things. But they are some weird large bird that have fuzzy heads and black feathers that felt kinda scratchy. They were also pretty tall, about as tall as me when they were walking around. There was something cute next to it, I think it was a momma pot bellied pig with her piglets. David was petting whatever it was next to these bird things. Their cage had an opening half way up, but the pigs or whatever didn't, and one of the birds leaned over the top of the cage (which was like 3.5' tall) and started moving it's head right to the top of david's head like it was going to peck him! I called his name and he looked up and backed up. That would have been a good picture if I wasn't so freaked out at that moment. Them face to face. It was creepy though!!
Oh, and the pot bellied pig didn't do much of anything until I think it's owner came along and started grunting at it. It sat up, grunted back, they grunted back and forth until the pig was so excited he had to pet it and walk away. Then the mom stepped back and threw herself down. I don't think she cared that she almost killed one of her babies.
They also had ZEBRA!!
AND A CAMEL!!! (This one was just a baby, there was another one that was humongous but I didn't take a picture.) This camel was oh so soft! I didn't think it would be.
THEY HAD A GIRAFFE!
AND OF COURSE, THE BEST OF ALL, SOMETHING THAT I WAS SO FREAKING EXCITED TO SEE WHEN I SAW IT, I'D NEVER SEEN ONE BEFORE. SO VERY COOL!!!
He was laying there for a long time and then, as most typical males do when they get up, he scratched his back, ate, crapped, and scratched his b****! That was so funny!
Isn't he super cool??????? I want to see one in the wild so I can see it run and jump. This one walked around and had a really rat like looking tail.
Oh I'm sorry, you're still wondering what it is?
Only the most random thing to have at a fair!!!
This fair definately had the best animal selection of any fair I've ever been to. Although it was sad they only had three bunnies.
Oh, yeah. IT IS A KANGAROO!!!!!!
Oh, and also, on a sad note.......apparantly nobody knows what an elephant ear is around here. There were weird things I've never heard of before like "indian bread"(something like that) and "funnel cakes".... but no elephant ears. Sigh. Now I have to make a not so perfect one at home.
