AV FAIR

This post is a little overdue (sorry about that). We've had a rather busy couple of weeks and the weekend was busy with our mini trip to San Diego so I didn't get round to writing this post.

Anyway, a couple of weekends ago Andrew and I took a trip to the AV fair with our good friends Christian and Nicole. They have a dog too called Penny (Mac's girlfriend) so we left Macintosh with her and went out for a night of fun and food.

The fair was similar to a UK one in most respects. There were rides, animals, food, stalls etc but it was on a much bigger scale. In fact there were so many food stalls covering just about everything you wanted to eat and even things you didn't want too! The boys also spent a little while looking at some steam machinery. Obviously Nicole and I were thrilled...

After we'd done a quick lap of the whole fair and scoped out what we wanted to do we decided to have something savoury to eat. The hope was that it would balance out anything that was consumed after that! So Andrew and I selected some tasty BBQ and a beer. It really was yum. America does BBQ so well!

Food was hastily consumed because by then it was time for the All Alaskan Pig Race. This was HILARIOUS! They had several heat rounds to determine which pigs would be in the final race. All the pigs were introduced and they had hilarious names. In fact Andrew's favourite pig was called 'Sloppy Joe' which was great. He did pretty well actually, got into the final but lost as he belly flopped on the last hurdle. Yes that's right they jumped hurdles too! It was so good. I think the four of us cheered louder than all the kids around us. 

After the pig racing the ferris wheel was the next thing on the agenda. The sun had set so it was all lit up and it looked good. Nicole and I had both forgotten how much we didn't really like ferris wheels until we were sat on it. By that point it was obviously too late! Christian made the carriage rock a tiny bit which set us both on edge. We are so alike! Note in the photo below how I'm gripping onto the edge of the carriage and how un-relaxed I look! 

Once we'd survived that ordeal and done some more looking at the animals on display it was time for my favourite part.....the fried food! I was so keen to taste it because I'd hear so much about how Americans fry anything apparently! Sure enough they do. There was fried snickers bars, red velvet cake, cheesecake and oreos. Andrew had a fried snickers and I had fried oreos. At the time they were pretty delicious. Afterwards I may have regretted the choice. Deep fried food is not good in big quantities! Still it was worth trying. 

It was then time to head home to the pooches. The fair was a success and we loved spending time with Nicole and Christian as always. Until next year AV fair...
H