The Fair

We went to the Iowa State Fair on Friday. I guess this fair is extremely famous, they have a massive amount of animals, activities and fried food. It's common to deep fry candy bars, Twinkies, and I guess anything you can eat. The smell is incredible when you walk in the fair and it's much too large to do in one day.
Well we happened to be there on the hottest day ever! I thought I was going to die. The four of us are blue eyed, blond hair and don't do well in the heat. It was exhausting. And it didn't help that the first thing I ate was a funnel cake, it sounded so good, but it made me so sick. I could only breath through my mouth the rest of the time because every time I got a whiff of something deep fried I thought I was going to vomit! It was awful, but I tried really hard to have a good time. It was just difficult because Collin had several breakdowns and even Talin got upset at some point. But here are the fun fair pictures, the animals were crazy!

This cow was freaking us out. First of all he was huge and second of all his hip bones stuck out like crazy, and they were shaped very unusually. Never seen a cow like this, but there was a whole row of them.
This boar was disgusting. That's all I have to say about that.
Here are my cute little piggies!!



This elk made me sad. I'm so used to seeing them in the forest that it broke my heart to see this one in a cage.

This was the largest sheep. I think he weighed around three hundred or four hundred pounds.

Here is the largest bull. He weighed over three thousand pounds. He was a beast.

Collin petting a normal sized sheep.

This horse was beautiful. I wish I had a picture of his body, but he was in his stall. The boys loved petting the horses.

They had the cutest little farm. The kids got to plant vegetables and then they harvested them. After that they got soy seeds. They took the seeds and turned them into fuel, and drove a tractor around that they fueled with their seeds. Then they got to sell their vegetables and they each got a dollar and they had a real store where they got to pick something out and buy it for their dollar. It was so cute. Of course my children passed over the healthy options and bought a rice krispy treat with their money.

Here is Talin planting and harvesting his veggies.

It turned out to be a fun day, despite the heat. I'm glad we went, because last year we never got around to going, so this was a fun experience to have. Maybe we'll try to go again, just for the food. It was a great disappointment to not try everything!