The Great Minnesota Gettogether!

I did it. I know. This should have happened many years ago. I have avoided it for four years, but this year, I did it. I went to the Great Minnesota Get-Together: The Minnesota State Fair.

The most ridiculous part of this is that I go to school and live about two miles from the fair grounds, yet I have avoided the State Fair since I first moved to Minnesota. I am not sure why, but most likely because I was intimated by the second largest state fair in the United States. I also do not get excited about food on a stick, farm animals and mass amounts of people in heat (unless it is Disney World).

I decided the way to survive the fair was to embrace the experience. That meant wearing my chicken hat, grabbing some give aways and convincing my friends to be part of The Alphabet Forest, which was quickly the best part of the Fair.

It also became clear that I need to one day win another ribbon at the Fair. My first was a Blue Ribbon for completing the alphabet challenge in the Alphabet Forest. Please do not argue the legitimacy of this ribbon. Jerod and I have contemplated canning. I also believe that I am a far better scrapbooker than some of the entries I saw, even though I gave up scrapbooking a while back.

So will I go to the Fair again? Not this year, but I will not completely avoid the Fair in years to come. I will continue to avoid food on a stick at all costs.