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.

Iowa State Fair, Part 1

Today I went to the Iowa State Fair. Today was the first day of the fair. I went with my grandma, my cousin, my brother and my mom.

We took a ride on a golf cart. And we stopped at a place with a giant, chocolate moose! I think it was weird and yummy.

In that building they have food that people make and are trying to win a competition. Then two people that my mom knew were selling their cookbook. I don't remember the name. (Typist's note: the cookbook is Two Chicks from the Sticks and it is awesome with tons of great baking recipes!) They gave me $5 to get something sweet and eat it and review it on their blog. This will be the first time I've done a blog for someone else. I'll let you know when it's on their site.

Then I went and got on a vehicle and drove it around. It was a police car. It was a fake one. And I drove good. But Bo crashed into things a whole bunch! Do you think he's a bad driver? I think he's a terrible driver!

Then we went to find some food. We found hotwings. So I ate some. They tasted hot. There wasn't sauce on them. They weren't like with the sauce, that kind. I got them from a Chinese food restaurant. They tasted spicy and that was their main flavor. Maybe go to a different place for hotwings.

 Hotwings

Then my mom got cheese balls and vegetable French bread pizza. The cheese balls tasted like normal cheese balls from Starbucks but maybe a little better. The vegetable pizza taste good too, like normal pizza except with all vegetables. Instead of a crust it was French bread.

Cheese balls and pizza sauce

Then I got some chili cheese fries because I wanted some french fries. And I didn't think the fair had it, but they did. So I went to see how they were made. The biggest buckets were giant! Even the little ones were pretty big. At first they were really hot but then they were not that hot. They were really good against other cheese fries. Some don't have nacho cheese, but these did and it had chili with beans. I don't think other chili cheese fries have a lot of beans like these did. They were the best beans. I think you should go get some, but they're only at the state fair. They were kind of by the Drake Administration Building, my mom says. Just east of the Varied Industries Building.

 Small bucket of chili cheese fries

In this next picture I'm waving my fan at my face because I was hot and I was resting against a tree because that's kind of fun, for me. We were going to the Big Slide.

 The Big Slide is awesome! And you should go on it because when I went on it, I put my hands up and I was jumping on it! Like when I was going down the hills I bounced off of my mat a little bit. You are supposed to climb like a million steps to get up the slide, and you have to pay a ticket for each child going on it. Like if you have two children, you have to get two tickets. You should go on it because it's awesome.

 Giant Slide!

After the slide we went to an ice cream place. I got an ice cream swirl cone. And it was really, really good. A swirl is where you have chocolate ice cream and vanilla ice cream and swirl it up in the same cone.

Twist cone

This is the end of part 1. To be continued......