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. 

Iowa State Fair, Part 2

I am continuing my Iowa State Fair review from yesterday. Today you're going to see lots of fun things you can do at the fair and lots of good foods.

 This is after I ate the ice cream. We went to a big place with all these tractors and stuff. Here's me in the wheel relaxing like a cool dude. 

 This is me by a storm chaser truck. It looks like an old fashioned car but it's kind of a new car. It's for chasing tornadoes and stuff. But not floods. It would get flipped over by the water and then the people inside would have drowned because it's so heavy and they would have put the keys somewhere and the doors would be locked so they couldn't get out in time. That would be scary. I got this book from the library it was called "Worse Case Scenarios" and one was if you get caught in a tornado outside on your bike and it's about to form, then get in a ditch or someplace. But if it's raining, then there could be a danger of flash floods, which are floods that come with very little warning and do very big destruction. Then you have to make yourself as little of a target as you can be if you are in that situation. 

 Here's me in the quilt room looking at a cool quilt that has Santa Claus on it. My brother was being a dummy so he ran headfirst and hit his mouth on the bars because he's a little dummy. He's clumsy. 

 This is a picture of five brothers that all died on the same ship when it got sunk. 

 Here's me in the Pella Plaza with my cousin Kael. You get to go in a place with a lot of rocks and there's water spraying up everywhere. And it's really fun. But all these stupid kids were sitting on the main sprayer which was making it shut off all the time. 

Then we got dried off and went to a park. This is me on the giant climbing thing. And on one part when I was climbing I was like hanging from my hands and I didn't want to fall. And it was like worse case scenario, I didn't want to fall in the lava!

 That's not me! (Mother's note: yes it is!) No it's not! 

 This is me playing an awesome game in the science place at the Ag Building. I should maybe go there more often. I hope they have what they have there right now again next year. The science place was about nature and stuff. My favorite game was where you had corn, wheat, strawberries, a cow and some chickens. And you had to match up what kind of food they make. And it's pretty fun.

 This is me and my cousin trying to eat a stone ice cream cone. But I didn't bite it because all my teeth would fall out. There was lots of ice cream cones that we saw. They did not all look the same.

 This is me getting some fresh french fries. And they taste better than McDonald's french fries because they're fresh. Don't you think fresh things are better?

 This is by the Giant Slide. I am eating a watermelon cup from Beattie's. I like them because they have watermelon in them. It's a nice thing to get because it's a fruit and it's good. It's not made with salt in it, like other crazy french fry people do.

 This is the food that I picked for the guest blog. You'll have to guess what it is! We'll let you know when you can read about it on the Two Chicks from the Sticks site.

 I am eating a delicious kebab with chicken, potatoes (which I did not eat), peppers and onions. I ate everything but the potato. I gave one pepper to my mom and one onion to my grandma. I gave my potato to my cousin and he traded it for a pepper. 

 I was over by the toy place and I saw all these cool toy things. But I was most interested in the guns and stuff, because you know what kind of boy I am. We were over there because we were about to leave and my grandma was letting us pick out one thing. Which is very, very nice. She even got a whole pack of stuff for Bo because he wanted it. It was $12, which was the limit. But it could be $15, too, because that's how much my thing cost. I got a gun that makes sounds and it has a targeting light and it has these realistic sounds. And I couldn't figure out how to work it, and when we got to my house, the minute I stepped out of the car, I cocked it and the cocking thing snapped. And I said, "uh oh." And then I tried to fix it and I did fix it and I said, "well that was easy."

 Then we went to a Pella place and got bologna on a stick. And it was really delicious and we really liked to eat it but then my mom dropped it on the ground and we couldn't eat it anymore. 

 So then we went over to a corn dog place and I was like, "OK, I'll get a corn dog. But I'm not sure if I will eat it all." But I ordered one because I was hungry and it was the only one I ordered during the day. Kael is more of a corn dog fan than me. I got it and I took a bite and it was too hot. A while later I took another bite with the bread and the hotdog inside and it tasted better and it wasn't that hot because it had the bread on it too.

Soon I got it finished because I really liked it. This was my last bite. 

Final thoughts: Please check out the state fair but don't go to the world's smallest horse thing because that's probably just a prank. And don't fall and cut open your knee, like I did, at the very beginning. It was like my first step at the fair. And then at the very end of the day my cousin fell and did the same. Just don't get hurt. OK, that's all.