With the mother-in-law in town, we made our way to the land of manure, farm equipment, over-tanned people, carnival rides, carnies, and animal shows...also know as the Howard County Fair. County fairs are smaller than the state fair and that's just fine with me. Everyone reaches their limit of animal stalls to see and the county fair has just enough. Offering twice as many cows, rides, and games is a waste when half that amount is all I'm looking for.
Even if the animals on display are always the same, this year's fair had the best looking bunch yet. We did play one fair, fair game as a carny guessed the MIL's age. He was off by 20 years so she won a stuffed cow. At the football toss, the carny gave me a free throw that I made through the tire, but none of the prizes were worthwhile so I walked away.
Two suggestions for next year...offer cotton candy without yellow coloring to appease the Wife and offer fried dumplings. Apparently it's impossible for a Maryland fair, at any level, to offer the best carnival snack. Think malasadas or funnel cake balls doused in powdered sugar.
Onto the pictures!
Another August means another HoCo Fair.
I now control you, rabbit. Soon the world!
What I'd look like reincarnated as a rooster.
Like the military...all haircuts are high and tight.
When your animal's on display, hairdryers are just the beginning.
Just like the scene from...
....Lady and the Tramp. Or close enough.
I dare thee to find a cuter animal.
I'd buy this pony for the Wife, but it requires more than the 0.03 acres of land we have.
Not exactly what Ludacris meant when he talked about milking the cow.
The Wife would rather not have you "send in the clowns."
The Mountain Dew souvenir cup doubles as a bong.
The best chicken fingers anywhere!
Ride this if you'd like to see those chicken fingers again.
Her magic cooking produced fried Oreos.
A fried Twinkie is much better than a fried oreo, but it was worth a shot.
At least they used double stuff oreos.
You are such a horse's @$$!
Last place becomes bacon!
Does a dunk tank ever get boring? I think not.
Jacob's Ladder...the key is to keep moving.
Or else you fail.
13 MPG means this baby will easily receive the maximum Cash for Clunkers rebate.
1 comments:
Great pictures! I guess it's not summer without a county fair. Last year the best I could do was the Burtonsville Fire Department carnival. I think a county fair is definitely in order this year!
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