Oh god, I'm like a five year old. If I get this out in a coherent story it'll be a miracle.
SO WE WENT TO THE FAIR.
And I was STARVING so the first thing we did was get Fry Dogs at Blue Moon Drive In Diner, which is hilarious you buy the food and then go around back and sit on car seats and watch a movie while you eat. Does anyone know what film the song "7 1/2 Cents" comes from? Because that's what we watched while we NOMMED US SOME FRYDOGS.
Frydogs are hot dogs wrapped in hash browns, basically. I found mine delicious; Lucky was less impressed with his. Mum didn't get one but did like their raspberry lemonade.
Then we went to the cattle barn.
You guys, cows are bigger than I thought. Like, I've seen some cows, but never cows like these. These cows loomed. I'm pretty sure there's some elephant in them. BIG COWS OKAY.
We were looking for the butter sculptures which turned out to be in the dairy exhibit across the fairgrounds, and we didn't stay long because it was hot and Mum wasn't feeling so well. So instead we went to the agricultural building and got HONEY CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM and gawped at produce.
Eventually Mum and Lucky said they wanted to see the Eco Exhibit, which was way north, so we got to see a lot of stuff along the way, like A PARADE. With a puppeteering troupe from Minneapolis, dressed as dung beetles for GREAT LOLZ. There may have been cinnamon-roasted almonds still hot from the roaster, but if you think there are any left you are mistaken, for I have eaten them all.
Traveling with Mum is a little like traveling with a toddler you can't carry when they get tired, so after the Eco Building -- which I found interesting but not especially fascinating -- we trekked back to the shuttlebus to the hotel. I'm leaving out a lot of ooh-ing and aah-ing at various things, and also a story about how buying taffy for a stranger at the fair is one of the strangest come-ons ever, but I have eight million emails to read.
So far Food In Cones (ice cream, roasted nuts) is actually defeating Food On Sticks. BUT NOT FOR LONG.