The Great Minnesota Get Together

It has been since, 2006 that i had been to the state fair last, and finally i got to go, and i even went TWICE this year. I was happy :) a couple low key visits was all i needed! My first time back was with Steven, the First day the fair opened, that thursday! Twas a good time, we bought a coupon book hoping to save a couple bucks, it was $5 so why not, plus we passed it down to Aaron and Amanda after we were done with it. But our first stop, was the Big Fat Bacon booth, Steven really wanted one, but we didn't have a coupon so he said no no..but i ended up buying him one cause that was a must, when will he ever get to eat a Big huge piece of pure fat bacon, ON A STICK! Here is a picture of him enjoying :)

After that we walked around for a long while, im pretty sure we covered the whole fair, walked all the way down by the machinery area then took one of the sky rides back so we could wait in line to get my mom one of those kare11 backpacks they were giving out for free, she asked us if we go to just try and get one, so we were determined! We looked through our coupons and we decided to head to Heritage Square to get a pretzel, it was buy one get one free, so we got 2 jumbo pretzels and cheese for like $4.50 so that was a good deal, that and between the pops we bought pretty much covered the cost of the coupon book. We stayed around for a while then just headed up, took the buss from the oakdale location! Im glad we went though, we hadn't been able to do a lot this summer together, or in general so it was nice to get out for a couple hours, plus we both enjoy a good day of people watching :) Here are two others of our food, and of us from our day trip to the fair :)

My Next trip to the fair was with my mom September 5th :) She hadn't been in about the same amount of years as i have, so we decided to go and walk around for a bit as well. I also brought my SLR to mess around a little bit, so that was nice to, i got some practice in on the night photography with the ride, got a few good shots, but the tripod that i brought i couldnt figure it out, so i didnt get very clear pictures because im not very steady, and with the slow shutter speed it made it difficult to get clear pictures. But we also had fun, walked around, peaple watched, went into a few barns. We had one of my favorite foods, but on a stick, PIZZA. gotta love pizza :) we also had some cheese curds (a must) and a corn dog too, oh and ofrcourse, BEER! Here are some pictures from OUR trip to the Great Minnesota Get Together!