I don't feel inspired, but. . . .

I thought I would share that we took our annual trek to the fair. It involved a lot more time spent eating and a lot less doing other things. While I love eating (especially fair food), somehow, it meant that the fair wasn't an overwhelmingly fair experience this year.

We tried to capture fair-ness by going into the grange building, but we saw a sad little display of handiwork and a few jars of relishes and jams for sale. The livestock area was overrun with alpacas, which were cute, but certainly weren't beautiful jersey calves eager to suck your fingers. There was a fun goat fashion show where people showed off clothes they'd made using the goat hair (and dragged the obliging goat along often with a matching collar). There was also a sheep shearing demonstration, which some of our crowd seemed to enjoy, but we sat too far back to totally enjoy (though the run away sheep was some short lived excitement).

The tackiness promised in the mutual of omaha wild kingdom electronic animal exhibit was not even fully realized since it was such a tiny exhibit. Also, the shark demonstration was much smaller than it appeared in the brochure and lasted about 20 minutes total, another disappointment. The chinese acrobats, a fair staple, were nowhere to be found this year, apparently replaced by drumming (which we didn't go to out of mourning for the acrobats).

Looking back, aside from insanely large corn dogs and other treats (including the not to be missed cheese curds, which one contingency of our group consumed three times over), my favorite part was the Canadian Mounties Musical Ride. It was amazing what those horses were capable of (and so much cheaper/more interesting than seeing the lipizzaner stallions).

So yes, I was sort of disappointed in this year's big e, but will I go back next year? Absolutely. Every year is a new experience there full of new memories. Wanna go with?