Minnesota State Fair

We have lived in Minnesota for three years now and have not been to the state fair.  We decided to remedy that this year.  It went through Labor Day so we decided to go on the Friday before it ended.  It was HUGE!

First we played on the tractors at the John Deer display.

Myles' favorite part was the little hands farm.  The idea was to show kids how things get from the farm to the grocery store.  

First we got corn to feed the "animals" and then he got to ride a tractor tricycle.

Then we harvested our crops, we got wool from the sheep, milk from the cows, veggies from the garden... then we took all of that to the "store" and traded it for "money" which we used to buy juice boxes.  It was geared to little kids and he and Abbie had a great time doing it.  

Lexie and Ashton got to meet a radio personality from their favorite radio station.  Lexie said it made her state fair!  

Then we went to see the animals.

These are the grand champion steers.  

Another of our favorite places was the miracle of life exhibit.  They had lots of baby animals some just hours old to a couple of days.  We missed a litter of piglets being born by about an hour.  This was a lot of fun.  

We ate lots of good food and saw lots of cool stuff.  My favorite food was Australian fried potatoes.  They were like huge battered, fried potatoes chips.  They were covered in cheese and ranch and sooooo good.  Our kids tried gyros for the first time and everyone liked them.  We had key lime pie on a stick and chocolate malts.  Oh the food.  We got one or two of whatever sounded good and shared them.  We were there most of the day and had a great time even if we did get drenched while we were trying to leave.  We had bought umbrellas to take with us because we knew it was supposed to rain.  And boy did it rain.  In the early evening.  We were pretty tired by then so we decided to go ahead and go home.  The umbrellas did a good job of keeping us dry until we had to load everything into the car.  Then we were soaked.