It's a great life....Connie Nuckols: 14 hours at State Fair

When I bought my old house, I had the entire house remodeled so everything is new EXCEPT for the yard. Now, I'm dealing with a plot of dirt that has been neglected for 40 years.

Saturday, I decided to rid myself of some of those junk trees that were growing in the flower bed on the side of my house. Well, it was liking pulling one thread and unraveling an entire sweater.

I thought I'd cut down a small tree and dig up the root. Well the roots went under my house, all over my yard, and then would be attached to another tree. Then I had a root the size of my wrist going under my flower bed. I used a chain saw and cut it out of the bed and then realized that it probably belonged to my Pecan tree about 10 ft away. Oops.

Oh and while I was in my root-cutting frenzy, I accidentally clipped the power to my a/c unit. Anyway, I did yard work for about 8 hours on Saturday and was worn out....so how to spend Sunday? How about.....

14 hours at the State Fair (See photos at bottom of page)

So here's a recap of how to spend 14 hours at the fair. 9:30am to 11:30 pm.

Figure out how to pay for DART parking and get tickets for DART and take DART train.
Wait in line to go through metal detector to get in to fair.
First things first: Fletcher's corny dog and sausage sandwich.
Go see memorial to Big Tex and take pictures.
Go shop for hot tubs. Talk to all the sales people. Realize hot tubs are so expensive that boyfriend decides he misses his boat and would rather have a new boat than a hot tub.
Let the Dead Sea Salt guy perform mini-facials on us. We passed on the $400 worth of products, but yesterday bought same products on Amazon for $90.
Go the midway and avoid the games and rides this year. Did rides last year.
Go in the greenhouse area with the pumpkin carving and model trains.
Go to the Sensodyne vendor and brush our teeth and get free stuff.
Take pictures in Chevrolet booth.
Go to 5 hour energy booth. We are both winners on the wheel and get free headphones and energy drinks. This was awesome because my cat just ate my headphones recently....well the cord.
Spend at least an hour at the Lottery Booth. Boyfriend spun the star so he got to go into the money booth. He caught 30 bills which according to the lady is really good. He is very proud of his physical prowess. I was dancing to "Jump, jump, jump" and the announcer gave me a free lottery shirt for having spunk. We also got tote bags which were much needed by this time.
Go to the fiber and food pavilions. Felt the need to see the butter sculpture. Boring.
Car Show. I think I posted last year that a new Corvette was $76K. This year it was $125K+. Sat in a convertible Camaro, but windows too small and I could barely see over dash. Sat in the convertible Ford Mustang. Boyfriend said that the Mustang looked better on me, but I still think my Z4 looks best on me. The Hyundai Genesis and some new sporty Scion were cool.
Getting a little tired. Found an area with a TV so sat and watched Cowboys for a while. We bolted before the end of the game and the referee issues.
Bunny area. Looked at the beautiful award-winning bunnies. Went through the petting zoo. Probably won't do that again. If there was a fire, we'd be dead. It was packed and the animals were all full so they wouldn't eat the animal food.
By this time, it is already 4ish. Getting hungry again. Go to food court. Spend an hour in this crowd looking at the food trying to figure out what to eat. Decide on the tator twisters. This was a time-consuming venture as everyone else decided on the tator twisters too.
Take pictures at Bounty paper towel booth surfing...but I looked the wrong way. Whoops. He said to pretend a wave was coming beside me so I looked other way.
Feet are tired, so we go to the vendor area with the massage chairs. They have different types. We each get a chair and get a 15-minute massage. We switch chairs and do another 15-minutes. We also spend time talking to the sales guy about these $7500+ chairs. These are awesome, but after a few minutes, the new boat is sounding better than a big chair.
We ended up stopping to watch some jazz musicians. Bob the toothless state fair guy is dancing with all the ladies. It is a sight to see, so we hang around a while. We see a totally drunk girl fall on the cement and take her very drunk boyfriend down with her. Apparently drunk people bounce right back up.
We go to the Chinese Lantern exhibit and rest 45 minutes until it gets dark and then we take the tour.
Hang in the beer garden and watch the light parade.
Go the laser light show.
Back on the DART and we are worn out.