"Our State Fair is a Great State Fair...."

For those of you that don't know the reference, that is one of the songs from Roger's and Hammerstein's State Fair.

We went to the Utah State Fair on Friday and it was quite a lot of fun. I took the entire day off from work and, after we saw the kids off to school, Alythea and I, with the remaining 2 kids went to the state fair. It was a lot of fun to see some of the things that they had there. We saw cows and chickens and goats and sheep and rabbits. There were horses and pigs too. It was nice with only the two youngest who, for the most part, stayed in the stroller that we had.

After lunch, we went home to pick up the other two kids that were now out of school. When we got back to the fair, it was nothing but fighting and whining and running off.

We did do a couple of fun things. They had the pig races. They had "free betting" in which you received one ticket of the color of your choice that would correspond to a pig. If your pig won the race, you would receive a blue ribbon. If they called your number, you got a t-shirt. Nicole won a t-shirt for the first race.

We got to see the bird show which was pretty fun mostly because I like birds. The lady that does it is REALLY goofy but it was fun. We saw the worlds largest bull and the worlds smallest horse. It was a lot of fun, but expensive.

About dinner time, we were trying to decide what to have for dinner. When we all started commenting on what we wanted, I realized that it was going to be about 10 bucks each so we decided to leave and go to Golden Corral. It would be about $40 but we would get more for our money and Jayna would eat free PLUS we would get desert.

So, it was a lot of fun. I would suggest, for those of you with kids, doing a split day like we did. It was good to go and see what we wanted to see and then we wouldn't have to drag the kids to do the "boring" stuff. BTW, stay away from the rides. The tickets are $1 each and some rides are 2-4 tickets. You can get an all day pass for $16 per person if you are interested but that still gets expensive.