fair

ray & i took the day off and went to the fair.

neither of us had been to the fair in close to a decade, so we both considered this a relatively big deal. we bought tickets in advance (including 96 ride tickets!) and set out this morning around 11am.

we had been intending to leave much earlier than 11, but i rather badly injured my foot yesterday and wasn't sure i'd be able to go today at all. (the fine folks at urgent care told me they *didn't think* my foot was broken, and based on past experience i actually didn't think it was either. but since the pain was bad enough to send me to urgent care in the first place, i figured i'd better at least get an x-ray.)

anyway, i woke up this morning and it didn't feel too bad, so ray & i decided to go for it. i strapped my feet into my brand new high-falutin' sneakers and hoped for the best. and i did pretty good. i am quite the trooper. we managed to eat tons of stuff and rides tons of stuff before i finally called it quits around 7:30pm. not bad!

so let's see... what all did i eat? a steak sandwich. french fries. elephant ear! hot mini donuts. some phenomenal ice cream made by nc state agriculture students. a corn dog. was there anything else? i feel like there was something else. (rather, my stomach is telling me right now that there was probably something else.)

we walked every inch of those fairgrounds, though, so i probably burned a good 2% of the calories i took in. and, suffice to say, we skipped the fried twinkies, the fried oreos, the fried candy bars AND the fried coca-cola.

i wish i'd carried a camera with me, because some of the things we saw were spectacular. we caught a neat bmx bike stunt show, which was worth a photo. those prizewinning cows were quite impressive, too. the 5-legged goat deserved photo documentation, and yes some of the fairgoers were rather memorably dressed. but oddly enough, more often than not it was the signage that made me wish i had the capability to take snapshots.

mostly we just saw bad apostrophes (signs advertising "hot dog's", for instance) -- and we saw A LOT of that particular grammatical mistake -- but the one that totally befuddled me was the warning sign at one of the midway rides that read "guess with heart conditions should not ride." *that* deserved a photo. (what's more, we *rode* that ride.)

we actually managed to ride about 8 or 9 rides, and only two made me really want to vomit. (both forceably turned me upside down.) my favorite ride was the ferris wheel, so that shows you what my natural tolerance level is, but all in all i was much more brave than i thought i would be. neither of us was prepared for the scariest ride at the fair, though (the "turbo force" which cost 10 tickets and would have caused me to pass out).

it was a good day. but both of my feet now hurt really pretty badly, so i'm going off to bed.

g'night.

Posted by xta at October 16, 2006 11:06 PM | TrackBack