After a COVID dictated break of no Fair last year, it was a slimmed-down visit to the fair this year - just Helaina, Sam and I. It was also a pretty brief visit, partly because of our reduced group, but mainly because nobody went on any rides.
Still, we covered the highlights: visiting the displays in the Round House (reduced down from the usual two floors to one - COVID related, I assume), eating too many French fries (like usual) and watching the always exciting pig races with this year's (reluctant) version of "Swifty".
While the morning visit was brief, it wasn't our only visit. We made a second trip back at dusk. This is something we rarely do (and by "we", I mean "me"), but Sam had never seen the Fair at nighttime so I thought it might be fun for him to check it out. Plus, he had hinted that he wanted to stop at the apple crisp booth earlier in the day but unfortunately, it wasn't open by the time we left. Here was a potential second chance.
So we went back to experience the nighttime magic of the fair - and hopefully get some apple crisp. And it was fun - for a little while. Unfortunately, the crowds were ridiculously huge. The front of the fair wasn't too bad but as you made your way to the back, the crowds got more and more... well, crowded.
And to make it worse, the crowds were made up of the types of people you would expect to frequent a fair at nighttime - people who, for example, cheer for a pig in the pig races who's named after Donald Trump. (sad.)
Despite this, it was kind of an adventure - and fun in a "I'd rather have the memories and look back at the photos and pretend there weren't so many people there" kind of way.
But the lights looked pretty.
And Sam got some apple crisp.
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