The high(?) points:
* The Scrambler!!! This is a family tradition -- it's always the first ride we go on. (Two summers ago, Chiara -- newly arrived in America -- found our passion for it just a bit puzzling.) The girls are big now, so they took the outside and I got the joy of squishing them for a change.
* Visiting the pig barn and admiring the cute little babies, then turning around to see recipe posters and pamphlets prominently displayed.
* Walla Walla burgers!!! It's all about the onions, baby.
* Shriners corn on the cob!!! It's all about the butter, baby.
* Riding the Yo Yo at sunset. Gorgeous territorial views!
* Taking turns swinging the sledgehammer-bell-ringer thingy. Macho we are not, but we all won prizes anyway. Mine is a big blow-up sledgehammer that says "Girl Power."
* Seeing the Clydesdales and Percherons all hitched up and doing their thing.
* Hearing bits of "Footloose" from the Kenny Loggins concert at the grandstand.
* Finding a booth that was selling Crocs and getting to see all the colors in person. They have silver now! And the baby-sized ones are adorable (but sticker-shock-inducing at $25/pair).
* Buying the girls tacky $8 air-brushed straw cowboy hats. Yee haw!
* Taking my junk-food hangover and the remains of my Mother Goose handstamp into meetings at Microsoft today.
The fair runs through Labor Day at the fairgrounds in Monroe. We give it three thumbs up!
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