Dr. Abla's Monster (I know how to spell Alba!)

Last wednesday me my mom and my dad went to a restaurant called alba. When we walked in I saw bugs in jars and old peppers to. It was Restaurant Week 2013 in Des Moines -- which means the food is cheaper.  

Heres my appetizer its bacon wrapped rabbit terrine with pickled radish and some green that I don't know the name of. I really liked the rabbit terrine. I tasted the fat from the bacon. And I also tasted the tenderness of the rabbit terrine. It was a good mix of flavors.

I forgot what that was. I think it was my dads appetizer.

I didn't eat much of my sweet corn soup. It was to sweet for me. So me and mom traded appetizers. My mom's original appetizer was the rabbit terrine.

Here I am eating my vegetables like a good boy.

Here is my entree' pork loin and a             darn I forgot what it was called. Mom said it was sweetcorn and bacon like a cake. It was too sweet. The sweet corn was mushed up, like the soup, and I think that makes it too sweet. If it weren't mushed up it would have been better.

Here I am cutting my pork loin with a knife. The pork loin was a little dry but with a bite of peach salsa it made it much much better.

The reason my plate isn't all clean is because I wanted a dessert.

There were a lot of doors on the ceiling in the restaurant and the reason I liked my spot is because there was a blue door over me. And if the blue door fell, I would be safe because I was sitting below the window part but the window didn't have glass in it.

My dessert was a root beer float -- it had vanilla ice cream and root beer. The root beer was sort of like, well I don't know what root beer is made of. The fizzy and the kind of bitter sweetness and the vanilla tasted good together. And if that was my last picture then this review is over. But I'm not sure this is the last picture. I'm checking right now. This is not my last picture... more talking.

I do not remember what my mom's dessert was. It tasted sweet again. Really sweet. Because it had sweet corn.

I'm still drinking it and I'm halfway done, you can see.

My tummy hurts! 

Do not throw anything at the doors at alba. They'll get mad at you, and they might fall and hurt the doors feelings. So you better not do that! I would recommend Alba for people that like fancy restaurants, not for picky eaters. 

He Ate the Balls! He Ate the Balls!

This is part 2 of 2 Iowa State Fair Chronicles. And yes, again, the Amazing Bo is coming in and talking too, quite a bit.

Mazy: Here you see a menacing picture of 'the giant slide.' But that's not how big it is. The giant slide is WAY bigger than that tiny little thing. 

Bo: It's way bigger than that 's' that the person is riding down. 

Mazy: Here I am. I feel like a stupid guy. If you can see I'm actually doing it with my cousin. We're putting our hands in the air and screaming. I cannot remember why we were doing that.

Bo: We're sitting down. They were shouting like, "Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Because they love the big slide!"

Mazy: Actually I don't think we made a sound. 

Mazy: This is the biggest slide in Iowa history! And I'm not kidding. I bet that's true; is it? 

Bo: I'm going up the humongous humongous big slide!

Mazy: I'm climbing up this and it's not very fun climbing up a big slide. You can look through the stairs and see all these little tiny poles, but I knew they wouldn't break.

Bo: What tiny poles?
Mazy: Well you can't see them now, Bo. You have to be there.

Mazy: This was freaky! This is a perfect picture of you seeing us making a jump! Can you see us making a jump?! But it was scary. And awesome at the same time. 'Scawesome.'

Bo: I was scared when we were going down at the top. When I got down to the bottom I wasn't scared. When I went the first time I was scared. When I went again, I wasn't scared. I asked my mom if we could go three times, but she said no because we didn't have that much tickets. 

Mazy: You got a picture! Hahah! I'm on the ski lift with my cousin. It was the first time I've ever went on a ski lift without an adult on it with me. Kael was getting kind of scared. 

Bo: Here I'm eating a banana corn dog! Hahah. No it wasn't a banana corn dog! It was a corn dog with mustard! It was good.

Bo: That looks weird. Look at Kael. I put my face through a little circle and then my cousin looks funny because he was smiling and then I had to go to the restroom. 

Mazy: Kael was photo bombing in a weird way.

Mazy: We went to this stand because my mom said it had the best ice cream. 

Mazy: I got the Cookie Mountain; it was good. It was a cookie and there was chocolate sauce, hot fudge to be exact, there was vanilla ice cream and there was a mound of whipped cream on the top. It tasted good because the whipped cream was sweet and foamy, the ice cream was kind of hard and cold and sweet, and then the hot fudge was hot and really soft, and the cookie was hard and medium and normal temperature. 

Bo: I got va-lina. I like it. And because I got a little cup. It tasted really good. The end. 

Mazy: The jalapeño cheddar dog was hot! The corn dog was hot and then there was cheese on it that was also hot, and there were jalapeños that were hot. So it was hotness supreme and that kind of cheddar dog. Very good.

Bo: This was fun holding a Fox Snake and my brother wanted to but he got to hold a turtle and so did I. And the snake really tickled a lot and on the top it was really rough. One time it hissed at me and it had a really long tail. 

Mazy: I'm holding a tiny little baby turtle. I forgot what it's called. This was at the Natural Resources Building. 

Mazy: The turtle's shell was smooth, and it tickled a lot when it moved around. 

Mazy: This is tenderloin. Actually, it's cow balls. Not joking. They were called prairie oysters. And I think that's a creepy name because it's peculiar. I wanted to get them because my dad told me about them and they sounded weird. They sounded cool to eat. 

Mazy: It tasted like chicken, and I'm not kidding. It was deliciousssssssssssssssssssssssss! It was breaded and that was good, it tasted kind of crunchy. And the ... balls, tasted like chicken fingers except they were a little too salty. I'm not joking. You can ask my mom, she's never wrong. Well sometimes she is. It looked poop-colored inside. I would recommend people eat these because they put their choice-making abilities and taste to the ultimate test. You can get them at the Iowa Cattlemen's Beef Quarters by Snakes Alive. 

Bo: It tasted really good. Because it was really salty! I want to have them again! I thinked about eating one and seeing what it taste like. I thought it tasted like spoiled meat. The enddddddddddddd. 

When you go to the fair you should ALWAYS try new foods. It's the best thing to do. The end and do not eat too many beef jerky sticks. You'll get fat. Not kidding. 

Corn Dog Hair, Corn Dog Yummy Feast!*

(*This title was written by 5-year-old Bo, Mazy's younger brother.)

On Tuesday we went to the Iowa State Fair. And Bo went to. And so did my dad. And my mom. The fair has a lot of foods that I like. But the only thing they don't have that I do like is sushi. That would have been good.

If kids go to the fair they should do the goofy picture things that me and Bo were doing. And they should try foods! They should go to the Agriculture Building because it's fun! There's a trivia game about planting seeds.

Instead of telling you about the fair, I'll show you some of our pictures. Me and Bo will talk about them:

Mazy: This is me and Bo pretending that we're farmers.

Mazy: This is me eating something called a Breakfast Burrito. This is the first thing we ate at the fair. It tasted good but then I found out that I might be allergic to eggs. So that wasn't very pleasant. 

Bo: The tater tots were really good but they were too much so I couldn't eat all of them. I let my brother Mazy eat some too, but he didn't want to eat all of them either. So I just threw them in the garbage.

Mazy: In this picture, me and Bo are building a whole bunch of Lego farm stuff because we knew it would make our mom happy because it's agriculture. Oh yeah!

Bo: Me and my dad builded a tractor and I built a little bit and my dad built most of it, and then I was asking to help my brother and he said yes. And then I was happy and then we picked up and leaved."

Mazy: Well this is our final. Hope you like it because we worked hard. If you don't like it, my mom's going to tell your boss to fire you! Just kidding!

Mazy: Cotton candy is weird! 

Bo: I got some cotton candy. And my brother wanted some so I gave him some. I ate some cotton candy and then I looked like a billy goat! And then I ate some more cotton candy and then my hands were all sticky! The end.

Mazy: I'm about to fall off a train so yeah, pretty gruesome. You shouldn't look at the next picture. 

Bo: I drinked too much honey lemonade and it made my tummy hurt, but it tasted bo-licious!

Mazy: I tried the honey lemonade at the Ag Building. It tasted like sweet and the lemon was sour. It tasted a little bit "swour". 

Mazy: Beef jerky market! I got the spicy jalapeño. It tasted spicy and awesome. It was spicy and it was like meat, sort of like a thick, richness kind of flavor. You can buy this at the Ag Building. 

Mazy: In this picture I'm eating a super duper spicy beef jerky piece. Actually it's not VERY spicy, it's a tiny, well, it's medium spicy. 

Mazy: I'm eating a green apple. I got this at the Ag Building also. It's an early Iowa grown apple whatever that means. But it sounds cool. It tasted sour and like a little bit sweet. Good. It's another example of "swour".

Mazy: This picture is the gardens by the Ag Building. They have tunnels that you can run around in and hide. 

Bo: And play Army! And then play attack the monster!

Mazy: In this one I'm drinking an apple cider slushee. Before I tell you about the slushee, I'm going to tell you that just right now I finished eating another beef stick from the fair. I forgot it was still in our bag from Tuesday. So we just ate it. The slushee tasted like a hint of spiciness as cider goes. But not very spicy. It tasted sweet and cold. Very good!

Bo: I drinked some of my mom's apple slushee. I drinked too much of it and I had to go to the bathroom and then I had to give it back to my mom and then we moved somewhere else. Then I watched my brother play a game. 

Bo: When we ate watermelon it taste good, even they got us a lot! And then we ate all of it and then there were still seeds in there and then we dranked the juice and then we ordered food and then my mom ate a shish kebab.

Mazy: Here I'm eating watermelon, people. It's by the Giant Slide and by the Snakes Alive. 

Bo: And tell them that I like the Big Slide!

Mazy: Bo's just being funny. 

Mazy: In this picture I'm eating a FOOTlong corn dog. I took a bite of it and it was broiling! And I ate it all. But I dropped it on the ground once by accident. 

Bo: And I dropped mine on the ground too when I got a corn dog when my brother was on the ski lift. 

Bo: Oh! I didn't even know that! I had ketchup on my head! And then I didn't know that. I just dunked my head into my cousin's corn dog and then we wiped it off my head and then that was really funny. Heehee!

Mazy: I'm tying to hold myself together right now but I can't. Hahahah! 

This is part 1 of 2 State Fair Chronicles. 

Long Night in Iowa

On Saturday I went to the corn feed. The corn feed is when my dad's family has a big supper party thing. They serve a lot of American foods, sometimes interesting, sometimes plain. There are a lot of varieties of food.

It's called the corn feed because there's corn at it. They cook the corn in a big pot in the driveway and the ring bologna gets cooked with the corn too. There were over 100 people there and a lot of relatives and friends were invited.

Now let's get on to the foods!

The first food I got was some sesame meatballs made by somebody. The meatballs were OK. They were sort of good but they were a little bit mushy. And next was moussaka -- it was my mom's delicious dish. It's a mystery food -- I don't want to tell you. You have to comment on this post before I tell you.

Next I got my grandma's chicken and noodles, and it tasted really good, as always. The noodles were handmade. The chicken was good tasting, too. Then I ate my uncle Brian's smoked jalapeños with cheese and bacon on it. The jalapeño was a tiny bit spicy and the cheese was cream cheese, and that was good. And then they had some bacon on the top and that made it WAYYYY better.

Then I ate my Aunt Sandy and Aunt Denise's egg roll with sweet chili sauce, which went well with the crunchy, meatiness and vegetableness of the egg roll, and the spicy mustard sauce was good tasting too. They made the egg rolls and didn't buy them at a Chinese restaurant. I tried their crab rangoon, too, and it tasted really good to me.

I was at a corn feed but I didn't eat the corn. I guess I forgot about it.

After I got my foods, I went to the dessert table to get my desserts. I got chocolate-covered strawberries made by my Aunt Leslie. The flavors were sort of like sweet and creamy for the chocolate and then the juicy sweet of the strawberries. They tasted good together.

Then for the rest of the night I was horsing around, playing games and that was my epic corn feed. Come back and see my next review whenever you want. But you have to like this review or else I'm going to go juvenile!

This is getting all the food arranged.

This is cooking the corn and ring bologna.

This is Uncle Brian with his jalapeños coming out of the smoker.

This is me getting my food. 

This is me getting my food again and being a doofus. 

This is me eating. 

Me eating again. My mom took too many pictures, by the way.

This is my weird little baby sister. 

This is her running around in a NEW outfit. My mom always changes her outfit. I don't know why.