Thursday, October 13, 2011

Texas State Fair

You just can’t go to Texas and not go to the State Fair, it would be a sin. (ok not really but maybe eating all that junk food was) We just so happen to be in town when the 125th annual state fair was going on. Well before we had exact dates on when we were gonna be in Texas I made plans with my beautiful friend Kari ~ double date to the FAIR.
The plan was to meet up and take the TRE to downtown Dallas. Rather than having to deal with parking and driving back late or in Dallas traffic we opted to go this route.



Wednesday morning we met and headed to the train station to board the Trinity Railway Express. It was my 2nd time riding the TRE and Gabe’s first to ever be on a train like this before. It’s so fun doing new things together with him, this was also our first time to be going to a state fair together. Going on almost 4 years of marriage 5 years of being together NEX T MONTH and there are still so many “FIRST’S” between the two of us. Thanks to the Army ways and there wonderful not so wonderful deployments.


We tried many different yummy foods, some fried and some not. We walked around and looked at all the different arts & craft exhibits as well as the boat load of different cars they had one display. I’m pretty sure that had to be Gabe’s favorite part about the whole afternoon, we all know how he is about the his cars. Not to mention the smelly animals they had pigs, sheep, cats, dogs, rabbits, chicks and the largest hog I had ever seen.





Kari and I took place in a TV interview that they were doing at the BEER around the World station. I tried the Deep Fried Salsa & Kari tried the Deep Fried Pop-tart, we answered questions about how it tasted and the texture of it and all that good stuff. I was pretty nervous but they seemed to like what I had to say and enjoyed chatting with me. The footage is going to be used for the Travel Channel Fair Food around the World Episode.




We left the fair full from all that crazy food we ate but we had a great time. It was nice to because going on a week day there wasn’t thousands of people you were trying to walk through and we didn’t have to deal with a bunch of lovely children.



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