We did the Puyallup!!

When I was a wee little squirt, I remember having an absolute blast at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe.  Rides, animals, more rides, games, food, crafts, etc.  Admittedly, I haven't been to any type of Fair in over a decade, so you can imagine how pumped I was at the thought of going to the Puyallup Fair -- for the first time ever!!  Yeah, I've lived 34 years in this great state and have never been to the Puyallup Fair.  Mostly because I try to stay north of the King County line at all costs.  Unless, of course, it involves booze!! 

Puyallup Effin' Fair peeps!! Woot!!

Casey, Kim, and I set a date to do the Puyallup about a month ago, so I had a full month to charge myself up about how awesome it was going to be.  Forgetting that I'm not between the ages of 6 and 16.  And I don't need to buy a tractor, fireplace, or hot tub.  So by the morning of our Puyallup Fair departure date, Kim and I were busting at the seams with excitement!!  I think Casey is just humoring us in that photo.  I'd show you the other photo they took while I was in the bathroom before we left Seattle, but it involves a bare butt --

Photo courtesy of the internet

It was kind of like the Coppertone girl, but with Casey playing the part of the little girl, and Spuzz playing the part of the small dog tugging on the bathing suit bottoms.  But my picture does not include Spuzz or bathing trunks.  Anyway, we were *really* *freakin'* *excited* to get our Fair on!!  I was mostly looking forward to seeing all the animals -- pigs, horses, dogs, animals from around the world -- I had visions of it being a Noah's Ark of sorts.  Like an episode of National Geographic.  Complete with Morgan Freeman narrating the entire day in my head.  If Mr. Freeman is unavailable, I'd settle for Oprah.  Or Anderson Cooper.  

It seemed like it took us FOREVER to get there -- seriously, is Puyallup like 2 hours away? Well, it isn't 2 hours away, but when you've been chomping at the bit to chomp down on a corn dog, anything more than 5 miles seems like an eternity.  We arrived and were inside the Fair at like 10:30am.  It was at this time that we decided to have breakfast.  Kim went for a scone, and Casey and I went for a delicious corn dog -- or "Krusty Pup" as they are called in P. Fair speak.  And then, bellies full, we were off to explore the fair!!

Wee wee wee all the way home

We spent most of our time in the animal barns, the craft pavillion, and working up a nice sweat out in the overcast 80 degree muggy NW weather.  We checked out the dog barn first, and saw many teenage girls wearing power suits and getting ready to show their dogs in the Fair dog show.  I didn't get any good shots of the dogs.  So off we went to the pig barn!!  Who doesn't love a piglet?  And if one piglet is good, a pile of piglets is better!!  And a pile of sleeping piglets is best!! 

BLT's anyone?

Then piglets grow up and look like this.  Holy smokes, pigs get large!!  This little lady was tipping the scales at like 400 pounds.  Too many trips to the fried butter stand.  Unfortunately, there weren't too many pigs out for people to look at, they were supposedly moving animals around in the barns, so they were low on pigs.  So we checked out some of the other animals.  Photo montage!!!



Nice ass





Cute lil' pig butt

After we saw all the animals we headed over to the craft pavillion to check out the sewing and photography exhibits.  Kim and I have caught the sewing bug since starting our beginning sewing class, so we were excited to see the sewing machines and check out some of the sewing projects.  At this point in the Fair experience, I hit a serious Fair wall.  It was muggy as hell outside, and I was beginning to realize that I don't really like the Fair.  I kinda want to become a vegetarian.  And I'm tired of looking at people.  More photo montage!!!

By this time it was only like 1pm.  We were such Fair amateurs -- 2 hours in and we already want to call it a day.  But not before clogging our arteries with fried food!! 

I had heard about deep fried oreos, so of course I had to try them.  Kim decided to go for the funnel cake, while Casey took the safe route with a plate of yakisoba with sketchy fair poultry.  I think we all regretted our decisions about 30 minutes later.  Ugh. 

The deep fried oreos were pretty much exactly like I imagined -- gooey Oreo drizzled with chocolate and feelings of shame.  I ate two of the three then decided if I wanted to leave the fair with any self esteem intact I'd throw the third one in the trash.  Still felt pretty gross as I was hunting down a bathroom to wash off my chocolate coated fingers.  Ugh.  After I found a restroom to clean up, we headed back to Seattle.  I crashed in the back of the car -- napping all the way home.

So yep, we did the Puyallup.  I'm good now.           

Inspired by this today

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Lighting a blog fire under my ass!!

If you're reading this post right now, then you're looking at my new kick-ass blog banner!!  I've been rocking that same picture of Shilshole Bay for the past 3 years -- I decided it was time for a change, and time to kick things up a notch!  I'm hoping this new blog design will light a fire under my lazy blogging ass :)

The new blog banner was created by Lucas Andrews of A Flight of Yesterdays Design.  I'll be posting a link to his website as soon as it is up and running.  In the meantime, if you would like to contact him for any graphic design work, he can be reached through his Facebook page.

So......what have I been up to since my last post over a month ago?!?  Surprisingly, I've been pretty busy!  Working a bit on my One Little Word project.  I'm also expanding my photography horizons with another online course through Big Picture Classes -- Mastering Manual Mode.  Truthfully, I've been behind the entire 8 weeks of class, but I've been printing out all the materials and my intention is to practice, practice, practice in the coming months.  I've also been going on dog park adventures with Spuzz, and watching him tear shit up around the house.  Seriously, he's a mischievious little fart!  Just now he destroyed the cord that opens and closes my living room curtains.  Luckily the curtains are on deck to be replaced because, if you've seen them you know, they resemble curtains the Golden Girls would have had in their sweet, swingin' single old lady pad in Miami.  I'm talkin' AARP up in this bitch folks.  Geri-atric!  I'll be getting rid of them as soon as I have the living room painted.  If I had to describe the color of my living room, I would tell you it looks like Eddie Bauer barfed everywhere.  Like a henley I had circa 1992.  Kind of a dark teal / forest green.  Not my style. 

I'm also taking a beginning sewing class with Kim.  It is a 4 week class at a sewing / vacuum shop in Ballard.  Each week we make a new project.  The first week we made a tote bag, and the second week we made a zippered pouch.  Check out the pouch!

I'd post a picture of the tote bag, but for some reason it didn't download on to my computer completely.  You've probably seen it on my Facebook page anyway, considering I only have like 5 readers who also happen to be on Facebook.  This week we are making a quilted placemat.  Woot!  I'll be quilting up a storm here soon!  I'll post photos!! 

Also this week?  I'm doing the Puyallup!!  I've never 'done' the Puyallup before.  I'm pretty stoked on hitting up the animal facilities.  They are having a dog show the day we are going -- so pumped!!  I'll be sure to try and capture the essence of Puyallup with some photos :)