State Fair!

On October 16th we took Penelope to the NC state fair in Raleigh. Having lived in Tallahassee and Columbus and Dallas, we've seen our share of state fairs, but wanted her to have the experience and also to experience a bit more of NC ourselves. The last state fair we saw in the US was probably in Montana, 25 years ago. Not much appears to have changed. We'll still take the feria in Seville over all the others.

In one of the big pavilions, featuring NC ag products

Tasting NC wines...absolutely the only place you could get alcohol
of any sort

Corn dog or corny dog? Depends on whether you're from Texas,
where they originated...not Korea...is anything not seen on TikTok?

Americans will deep fry anything...anything; in our very limited
experience, the deep-fried Krispy Kreme burger is the latest...

Morning supply of roast corn

In the floral area

Champion bonsai

Champion Venus fly traps--not a fly in sight; NC native, BTW

Themed gardens...Barbie?

Autumn scenes

More flowers

Smelling the roses

NC's prime ag product, once upon a...

Turkey drum sticks...all day snack...$19.95

Champion watermelon/pumpkin; Jabba the Gourd

Peppers

Major honey displays

Suckling pigs

Suckling pigs tanning, not suckling

We all know what the Norwegian Blue is, so this was a bit of a
surprise

Not much going on in the livestock arena; would be very, very
different in Montana

So back to the Midway

Stock for the deep-fried Oreos

By agreement, thrill-seeking P did not go on any
of the carny rides...

"Yeah, last season he was a pixie-dust spreader on the Tilt-O-Whirl.
He thinks that maybe next year, he’ll be guessing people’s weight or
barking for the Yak woman." (If you don't get this, you're on the wrong
blog; see here for explanation)

So at length, after examining all the Midway games, P
finally settled on one and gave it her best shot...a good
educational experience in any case...of the poorer but
wiser variety....