Saturday morning we went to the fair. Glenn came for the first couple of hours before he had to be at the game. Our first stop was the petting zoo. As with everything at the fair it was over the top Texas style. This was no ordinary petting zoo. They had cows,
goats, pigs, and tiny shetland ponies. But they also had camels, 
kangaroos, 
ostriches (which were really quite scary by the way. Its huge head would just suddenly dive violently at my hand holding the seeds. But who can pass up the chance to feed an ostrich?), 
a giraffe, and zebras. It was amazing! Tate had an ear infection last week and was kind of ornery all day. He still had a cough and started to get what we thought was heat rash all over his body (another story entirely). We just watched as it crept all the way up his face all day long. Poor kiddo was not at his best but we did our best to have fun anyway. Here's Glenn shading Tate from the sun. He was worried about little man.
A lot of things at the fair had me asking myself, "What person thought this up?" Like this enormous sculpture of UT and OU football players carved entirely from butter.
It was fun to spend time with some wonderful friends. We talked, wandered, and shared some great fried food, a Texas fair staple. They had fried everything: PB&J sandwiches, pickles, beer, s'mores pop tarts, club salad, margaritas, snickers bars. You name it and these folks deep fried it. We shared a piece of fried cheesecake and I must say it was delish.
We spent 5 hours there and still only saw about half of what this fair had to offer. I think we may go again next year. It was a fun little Texas culture event.
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We had some fun, huh? Next year, we'll have to plan a day where the ladies go alone. Dads can be with kids that day. Oh, think of the fun things we could eat and see?!?!?
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