highlights (in no particular order): kettle corn. coronas. time with my friend kathy. four first places in the photography exhibition. 2 seconds, two thirds and quite a few honorable mentions. all first places in the design exhibition. the aisle walker. every night with my fam. dancing with my sister. having ashley up all weekend. running into an old friend, nate. destruction derby.

yup. i did that thing were i went country. i adorned myself in country attire and spend the past four days at the Eastern Sierra Tri-County Fair. it was a hoot. i can now say (proudly) that i am a one time all-fair pass holder. the fair is a trip. one is always in for a treat, a one-of-a-kind experience, a countryfied weekend to be sure. we saw some kooky people, bizarre outfits (stacie and clinton would have had a fit), and of course some not so impressive fair entries. we witnessed our fair share of drunkenness, cowboy hats, horses, quilts, photographs, and vegetables. not to mention our crazed, hair-piece adorned, silicone enhanced, leather-wearing loyal Grandstand aisle walker. we may or may not have laughed out loud and surreptitiously snapped a photo or two of her.

thursday: emerson drive. a absolute thrill. they are quite talented and i definitely found myself enjoying them and their country tunes. i for sure do-cee-doed a time or too.

friday: the truck pull. mildly entertaining. the announcer was the worst of all time. she made a potentially pleasant evening miserable. but we all had fun laughing at her. and of course, i had to critique her “rhetorical choices”. but the trucks pulled and modified tractors made some serious noise. in one class, they are allowed to put as many engines on as they can so long as the whole thang doesn’t exceed 8000lbs. so that was cool.

saturday: rodeo. this was fun. a classic country affair. the buckin’ bulls were cool even tho none of the cowboys make it 8 seconds.

sunday: destruction derby. this was a BLAST. so must mangled metal, spilled anti-freeze, and smoking engines. our friends teb long and dustin delGuidice, had a car in the derby and my dad was the pit boss. this made it all the more fun. we had someone to cheer for. so our car made it to the main event and won second place in the beauty contest. it was a pirate ship after all. and my dad even made a working cannon for the thing. it was schweet. but we lost to the local bishop car. ugh. popularity contest rather than a beauty contest. teb did an awesome job and had quite the cheering section. well done!

all and all, it was great to be back at the fair after five years of not being able to go. you will probably see me there next year too. you should come up for it. what a hoot.