Texas State Fair

What a great time we had at the State Fair of Texas. I'd been told by many friends & co-workers that I "had" to visit the state fair. So on Sunday, October 6th, we headed to downtown Dallas for the state fair! 

The first thing we had to do was find Big Tex! Jason was set on finding the big cowboy! If you don't know the story of Big Tex, Google him. He actually caught on fire at last year's fair so it was a big unveiling this year...the new Big Tex in his 61st year.

Later in the day we also walked through the exhibit on the life of Big Tex and watched the movie on how they built this guy in the past year.

Of course, we tried some of the fried fair food, too. Every year there are winners announced about 4-6 weeks before the fair. So we tried the overall winner, fried thanksgiving dinner and the best tasting winner, fried cookie dough. We ordered one serving of each and split them between the five of us. They were actually pretty tasty, but I'm glad I only had a 1/5 of the servings!! They fry ANYTHING, truly! Fried s'mores, fried Oreos, fried Nutella, fried peanut butter & jelly, fried butter, fried pumpkin pie, fried lemonade shakeup, fried pizza, fried avocado, fried, fried, fried!

I took photos of some of the fried food signs.

Then after some fried food we decided we should probably get on some rides. So we all rode the Texas Star which was awesome!

We were as high as the blimp and some landing planes. ;)

Since Kevin doesn't do twirly rides, and I love them, I rode the Crazy Mouse with the boys. Here is the unflattering evidence:

Oh, how I laughed! We had so much fun!

We had a chance to walk through some of the animal barns

See some tractors

Walk through the car shows

And we watched the pig races (so funny)

We finished our day with the parade.

It really was a fabulous family day! We plan to do the state fair every year.