Fun at The Fair

I'll talk about the only bad thing first. As I was getting ready Wednesday morning, I watched TV and the weather people said it would be mostly cloudy, scattered showers, with the sun peeking out occasionally, with a high of 79. So I wore a dark shirt that is sort of thick. Those bastards lied. On the news that night they said the high was 89. THAT'S A TEN DEGREE DIFFERENCE!! Plus I think it was more like 92 at the fairgrounds. I was a hot sweaty beast and my hair turned into something so horrible I can't even describe it. It was like a giant round fuzz mop.
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Meals on Wheels went by pretty quickly even though we had 11 people, but it's always faster with two people, so we were on the road by 12:30 and got there a little after 1:00. This picture was taken just after we arrived and were walking into the Midway. That Ferris wheel on the left is the Texas Star and was one of the biggest Ferris wheels in the world when it was built in 1985. Since then 12 to 15 taller ones have been built. It is 65 meters tall. Notice how the clouds are really breaking up.?

We ate first. I had some Cajun black-eyed peas. I wanted something just heavy enough to take medicine with, but I was saving myself for crazy fair food. The first thing we did after that was ride the Skyway. There wasn't even a line. This picture was taken from the air car and is of the city of Dallas. The tall thing on the far left is Reunion Tower which has a rotating restaurant and bar in the ball at the top. Once we (my Dad, daughter, HUB2 and myself) got really lucky and were eating there and saw a gorgeous sunset and full moonrise. Heck, that's probably the last time I was there. That was probably 15 to 18 years ago. Notice the sun is hardly "peeking out" now.

This is looking down from the air car. I wonder why they couldn't decide if that thing was either an alligator or a crocodile. Do they think people think they are the same thing? I don't care for either so I did not go inside to investigate.

At this point we had full-on sun and I was sweating like a crazy person. We decided to head over to the Creative Arts building because it is air-conditioned. This was my favorite quilt. It was hanging over part of the photography exhibit. There were a lot of good photos of cats, but none as good as the one My Sweetie took of Barney. And there was one other quilt I liked - a Christmas quilt - but the picture was blurry.

I'm not sure if this was a collectible or something someone made, but I thought it was kinda creepy. I guess someone liked it because it is sporting a blue ribbon.

After the crafts, I grabbed a frozen lemonade and we headed over to the dog show. I was disappointed they didn't have the performing sheep dogs, but the dancing dogs were pretty cute. The picture is very blurry because I zoomed in and I am a very shaky person. It was VERY hot in that building so even with the frozen lemonade I couldn't take it any more. At least outside there was a breeze. I got a sausage on a stick and a beer and sat in the shade.

We went back to the Midway to play games and maybe leave. But after playing darts and pick a duck and winning my little prizes I felt a little more energetic and realized we were near some water I had seen from the Skyway. We found a peaceful little fake pond with paddle boats and it broke my heart because I knew I couldn't do it because of my knee and I love love love paddle boats. There were also turtles all over fake logs. The turtles were real. I don't know why I didn't put pictures here of that. I'm goofy. By the time we got to the end of the pond we decided to go ahead and head for the Women's Museum even though they put it WAY over in one corner - basically the exact opposite end of where our car was. We made a detour through the car show just for the air conditioning. I took a picture of My Sweetie in one of those monster trucks but you know he won't let me show his photos. It was funny because he thought he would look tiny, but he didn't. We got to the Women's Museum and I let My Sweetie take this picture of me from a great distance because my hair was such a disaster. Then a breeze caught it and it looks REALLY funny. I think I look like Thing Two from The Cat in The Hat.

I really enjoyed looking at the costumes even though a few were replicas. Elizabeth Taylor had one TINY waist. I think my favorite was a sexy number worn by Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934). A lot of people were commenting on how very sexy and skimpy it was for "back then." My smartypants self said to total strangers, "Most people don't realize the Hays Code came about some time after movies were being made. There was not always a rating system. Obviously this movie was made before the Hays Code." (When I got home and looked it up the movie came out the same year that the Hays Code was enacted. Oh well. Just call me Cliff Clavin.) My Sweetie made me laugh. There were also lots of original sketches from movie costume designers. One said "Tom Hanks Allen in Splash." He said, "His name is "Tom Hanks Allen?" I laughed and laughed and he was all "What?" I said "Honey, he played "Allen" in the movie. As in Tom Hanks: Allen in Splash."

After the museum, we headed back to the Midway, because it was on the way out and we wanted to ride one of the little spookhouse rides. It was funny because we weren't paying attention at all and it wasn't a haunted house. It was called something like "Lumillusion" and had lots of funky lights and Pink Floyd music. I took this picture when we came out. I was looking up at the Texas Star, the Skyway and the moon. Can you see the moon? And notice there is not a cloud in the sky. Okay, one or two little wisps. At least when the sun started to set, it got a lot cooler.

Oh and after looking forever for the fried guacamole, I found it. I think when we went to throw darts. It looked like this:

It tasted like dirt. Later I had a Fletcher's Corny Dog to get the taste out of my mouth. We stayed until about 7:30 and neither one of us could believe we stayed so long. I had some theories. One was: Because of my knee, we really took our time and rested a lot. Another was: Because we stopped smoking, we had more stamina. Or maybe it was a combination of both things. But 6 hours? That was crazy. And I loved all of it except the sweating.