The Great Minnesota Get Together

The Minnesota State Fair...where Minnesotans go to get everything and anything (including alligator) on a stick.

The kids and I spent our morning at the fair.  Although we didn't try the alligator, we had plenty of nummy food.  Careline tried a Pronto Pup to determine if she likes corn dogs or pronto pups better.  Turns out she likes them both equally. 

Braden ate a piece of Big Fat Bacon (the name described it perfectly).

Adeline...well you probably can guess what Adeline ate.

As for myself...I strayed from my diet for the day to try the deep fried olives on a stick that I've heard so much about.  They are new to the fair this year at the Deep Fried Fruit stand near the WCCO booth.  These large green olives stuffed with cream cheese and deep fried were absolutely scrumptios!
 

Speaking of wcco...Careline tried her hand at being a news journalist.

We set our DVR to record the noon news as we planned to attend the 12:00 news at the fair in the hopes of getting some on air time.  Good thing we did...we had front row seats and got some good air time.  Look who you would have seen if you had been watching the WCCO news at noon.

 And look who we ran in to...Viking Adrian Peterson.  OK, not really, it was a lifesize cutout of him.

All the activity pooped Adeline out.  She fell fast asleep in her carset before the State Fair was even out of view in my rear view mirror.