Surviving the State Fair

On Saturday afternoon we decided to be brave and venture out to the State Fair. For those of you that have never been, the Virginia State Fair is quite the experience. I don't think you'll find a larger collection of mullets and Confederate flags in one place! And of course this year was also a mob of political stickers. I'm not sure what was worse. Nevertheless, we decided that John Grayson was old enough (and Mommy and Daddy were brave enough) to give it a shot.

The initial highlight of the trip was the wide variety of farm machinery on display. After 45 minutes of touring the entire John Deere display, we finally pulled JGray away kicking and screaming.



We walked around and saw all of the animal exhibits. Everything from sheep, cows, and horses to rabbits, chicken and geese. Mommy was very glad that she (1) remembered to bring her Purell with her and (2) the State Fair provides hand washing after each exhibit. Mommy was also very glad that J Gray takes a bath before bed every night.

Above all the greatest exhibit was the Swine (for some reason they call Pigs, Swine, at the State Fair). I initially felt bad about the sign on this cage... but then I had visions of bacon, pork chops, ham and Scrapple.




If you were to ask John Grayson about his favorite part of the fair, I think he'd say "strawberry milkshake." Yes, a milkshake. Next year, I think we'll go to Dairy Queen instead and save Mommy from stressing about all of the germs and crowds.