We're Going To The Fair

We woke up this morning and debated on whether we should go to the New Children's Museum downtown or the San Diego County Fair. Fried food, carnival rides and animals won....so we packed the car and headed to the Fair.

Kalista enjoying her first county fair at the Del Mar Fairgrounds

We strolled through the exhibit halls and checked out all the vendors and exhibits. We even ran into our next door neighbor walking around. We decided to bring our own lunches this year to be a little bit more health conscious. Typical fair food includes many things like deep fried cheeseburgers...deep fried Klondike bars.....deep fried pickles....deep fried heart attack waiting to happen.

Despite the health hazard, we couldn't help but wonder what some new additions to the fair menu tasted like- fried Kool-Aid and fried Girl Scout Cookies (aka Thin Mint). Final verdict....eh....they were okay. Fried Kool-Aid tasted like a thick doughnut mixed with Kool-Aid. The name ended up being more appealing than the taste of the fried ball itself. We all know you can imagine what a crunchy, warm Thin mint would taste like...so we'll stop there.

Yup...fried Kool-Aid. Who would've thought?

Kalista looking at the baby pgymy goats

Kalista enjoyed looking at all the animals. Many of the them were bigger than her...oh heck...many were bigger than us. We saw a pig named Peaches who weighed 600 pounds and many of the steer were larger than all three of us combined. Kalista liked the little pygymy goats and piglets the most since they were more of her size. The llamas were in full display today and even showed us that they too can look like full-sized poodles.

"Poodle-Llama"

We missed the piglet races this year, but made it to the turkey stampede race instead. It was funny seeing all the turkeys chase after a little red RC truck on the track. Those turkeys run pretty fast!!!

Jen wanted to check out the elephant who paints, but couldn't find where the exhibit was. Instead, she ended up getting onto an elephant, named Becky, for a mini ride. Go figure...she was destined to see an elephant at the Fair.