Playing Hooky

Well, it's probably not playing hooky if you ask for the day off and everybody at work not only knows that you won't be there and where you are going. But, whatever. It felt like playing.

We went to the great State Fair of Texas last Thursday, per my request (Blogger didn't want to upload pictures then, so just now getting to post). We had been a few years back with Scotty P. and our friend John:

Four people, one camera, idiocy ensues.

Beyond that, I'd only been one other time as a kid. I was ready to go again. We've got a busy weekend and the other weekends had been too crazy with football games, and that's just too many people for me. So, we decided a weekday was it. The great thing about going on a weekday, besides smaller crowds, is that there are lots of deals to get in cheaper. A regular ticket is $15, but on Thursday with an empty 20oz. bottle Coke product you get in for $4. Combine that with $10 each to ride the TRE from Fort Worth to Dallas, not only avoiding $15 to park but also the traffic, and we had a date.

I printed up schedules and wrote down all the cool things I thought we'd like to do or see. We barely hit any of them, but still had lots of fun!

We found our new vehicles:

And I just thought this was cool:

Love the car show.

Took silly pictures:

Walked around the cool marsh/swamp outside the Nature Museum:

These African Acrobat were really cool and apparently a pretty big draw this year:

People watched. Oh the people you see:

Posed with Big Tex:

Clearly, I am the better picture taker.

Photo Op:

We wanted to go to the History of Football/Tom Landry exhibit, but this:

prevented that. We walked by three times and that line never went down--all the way around the building. Disappointing.

Attempt to recreate a picture from the last time we here:

It would have been better if we had had someone to take the picture for us.

And, then of course, there was the food:

I wanted three things to eat at the Fair:

Corny Dog.

 

Funnel Cake. 

Fried Frito Pie.

Gotta love Texas and our love for all things deep fried!

And, last, this is why we took the train:

See that bumper to bumper? Yeah, one of us would not have made it home alive!

Oh, wait, one more 'cause I think he's cute:

Thanks for a great day, babe, and for buying me all the food!