San Diego County Fair

The fair! The fair! We went to the fair! Yay! We went yesterday for the afternoon and had a lovely time. 

We managed to figure out how to get free parking (YES!) and took a shuttle over to the fair.

We rode on the top of a double decker bus. We were a little 'windswept' by the end of the ride. My hair got so tangled! ouch!

As we arrived, we were BOMBARDED with lots of yummy smells! We probably should have had a real lunch before we went...because we wanted all the yummy fair food. But we had brought snacks and managed to stick to those...for a while... 

We walked around several exhibits, from gemstones and woodwork, to hobbies and collections

Pretty cool surfboard and tiki man!

ADORABLE woody with little barbecue trailer..you can't see it well, but it totally has a wooden take out tray with a burger and a shake on it. SO CUTE

Over by the collections and hobbies exhibit, there was a display for those who entered a CAKE CONTEST! WHY did I not know about this?! But I'll show you my favorites :)

(sorry they are a little fuzzy...I had to do it without the flash...)

Finally, we gave in (more like I did) and got a FUNNEL CAKE. Yum! With powdered sugar. Oh yes. 

Nom nom nom...

We also looked at all the shops and things that were set up. You can get just about anything there! We also stayed to watch a cooking show advertising this really cool waterless cookware. It ended up being a lot longer than we thought, but we still enjoyed it and they fed us food...so it wasn't a total loss ;) 

We saw this guy on the way out...it was pretty cool. :)

Then we decided to walk around a little bit longer...and then it was time to go home. We had a lovely day, but we haven't seen everything yet! We're going to go back again...anyone wanna come? I think John still wants to try the chocolate covered bacon strips...