Fair

Our work went to the State Fair yesterday. Fun! AND it was not nearly as lame as I thought it would be. Let me back up...

My work has a tendancy to make us do these awful "getting to know you," ice-breaker activities. Like at the Christmas party last year, we had to make antelers out of pantyhose and balloons. Lame! I mean, here we are all dressed up, some people have brought their spouses or significant others (The Diva and I went together because we share the faux-lesbian love), and then we are forced to participate in a silly team building exercise. Yes. Antelers out of ponytails. I mean, I am all for game playing, but how about some charades or pictionary or Taboo or Outburst or something that grown-ups play. So, point being, I was worried about this fair trip as I had intel that it would be a team building/getting to know you experience. But, while it got off to a rocky start what with the initial hat-wearing humiliation, overall it was good.

One of the fun things we did was "Fair Food Bingo" which necesiated consuming lots of crazy foods. While I shall never know if the Fried Mac and Cheese lives up the hype, I can say for certain that the Fried Peanut Butter, Jelly and Banana sandwich was worth the hunt.

I think that what the fair really needs is a specialized food map. Burgers, corn dogs (except the Fletchers), cotton candy, caramel appples...those things are pretty common and shouldn't be on the map. But I want to know exactly where the fried snickers bars are. And where is the fried cosmo? What about the fried oreos? And the Mexican chocolate? I need to know where to find those things. Because after 3 trips through the Midway, I was still without those things.