TEXAS STATE FAIR 2013

V and D with their sweet Cousin Janet...They visited Janet for a few days before the Fair.

Whoo-Whee...Dem Cajun's on a BEEGG Wheel!

Nothing like a Fair Midway

 

Vannie said she was itchin' to pop a balloon...didn't happen.

That must be a TEXAS pumpkin!  That guys overalls are rockin'!

Looks like the 1964 World's Fair...That's another tale I've just heard about!

 

Which one has the winning number?

All the lights!!!

Vannie kept called his goat an Algora Goat.  It's Angora, Vannie!...LOL

Oink

 

What is it?

OMGoodness...a Fried Moon Pie!  V said she could feel her arteries clogging up with each bite.

 

Quilts

Crafts...Van Gogh's Starry Night in Buttons

Canning

 

Legos

Big Tex

Dave said these were all over the place and in every color of the rainbow.

 

While I was enjoying life in Hillsboro, Vannie and Dave were livin' it up at the Texas State Fair in downtown Dallas.  What a grand time they had!  They said it brought back so many memories of when they went as kids and when they took their own kids to the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport. 

 

Vannie said that some things just never change...the midway,  the games, the smells, the sounds, the rides, the food, the animals, the preserves and jellies, the quilts and crafts,

Dave said that he did notice that everything was WAY more expensive...there were different foods, like those fried Moon Pies (there was even fried lemonade...how could they do that)...the canning products were displayed differently... the quilts were hung really high (probably to keep hands off)...there were more vendors selling stuff (jewelry, vibrating chairs, fudge, vitamins, and more)...and they never found the chickens. 

When I asked him, why he wanted to see the chickens, he just surged his shoulders and said, "There's just so many different kinds, Gypsy."  OK...But they are nasty little creatures. We have some right over the fence in Hillsboro.  I can hear that rooster crowing every single day.

 

Now...I wanted to hear a little more about that vibrating chair.  You think we could fit one or two in me.  Vannie said they sat in one and heard the whole spill from the salesman.  They measured it, and tried to figure out how they could possibly get one or two in me.  They would be so comfy to sit in while watching the tellie.  But, alas, no way...just wasn't going to happen...and Dave said they were a tiny bit pricey.  I would have enjoyed the vibrating part, too.  Oh, Well, can't have everything you want.  But it is nice to dream!

 

I'm still laughing over the "Algoria" goat.  They were cute things.  Looked like they just came out of the beauty shop...fresh perm!  And did you notice the size of that pig...my goodness me, what did they feed that thing...fried slop (OK, if they can fry the lemonade, they can fry the slop).

 

Big Tex...He obviously is THE thing to see at the Texas State Fair.  V and D went to a "Big Tex" Museum where there was old Big Tex stuff.  I think he used to move and maybe sing in past years.  He was just hangin' this year. They said lots of people were taking his picture, so he had a big smile on his face.  I loved the picture of Big Tex done in Legos.  Whew...makes me tired just thinking about putting that thing together. 

 

My stomach is still doing flip-flops just looking at the pictures of the Ferris wheel.  V and D said that it is the tallest in the western hemisphere.  I'm sure glad they rode it BEFORE they ate the fried Moon Pie.  It might have been really messy...on the people down below.

 

Looks like a good time was had by all!!!