On Friday I was perusing Face Book and noticed that Aunt Eileen (affectionately known as "E") was heading to the fair for lunch. As a junk food junkie myself, I decided we'd change our plans to go to the Apple Harvest Festival and called our cousins Gini and Russ Webb to see if they wanted to head over with us to the South Carolina State Fair (which happens to be in Columbia where they live). Luckily...Gini and I are all about the fried food and Russ/Corbin are all about people watching and football...USC was playing LSU the same day (at the same location) so they were planning on going anyhow. We met up on Saturday morning and Russ' good buddy Wheels (he does have a real name but Russ renames all of his friends so all we know him as now is Wheels). Piled the kids, adults, double stroller and tailgating gear in the cars and headed over. The fair itself was great...Gwennie and I had a corn dog and some lemonade. Corbin decided to eat some scary chili cheese fries that I was sure would come back to haunt him later and Gini went with the ever popular Carmel apple with sprinkles route. Good think Alex (their 6 year old daughter) wasn't hungry because the adults were eating enough for everyone! Blythe (their 10 month old daughter) also got in on the corn dog action and we had heard about these fried Oreo cookies so we all were on a mission to find them. After about an hour of searching we found the stand and it was well worth it....might sound icky to some of you but we all agreed......YUMMY!
By 3:30 we were all full of junk, tired of looking at cows/chickens/sand sculptures and sick of losing money on the fair games so we headed back to the cars so Corbin, Gini, Alex, Blythe, Gwennie and I could head home. Russ and Wheels were staying for the game so they helped us pile all the kids/crap into the car and then we were on our way.....or so we thought.
We pulled out of the parking lot to the left, didn't move for 30 min so we decided to turn around and try the other way. Same thing happened to the right and we noticed these people were even more mad (because they weren't letting anyone in, had some scary looks on their faces and some were just getting out of their cars to walk up to see what was going on) so we figured we were going to be there for a while. After an hour of no movement we turned around and headed toward the entrance hoping that gate was open. No luck there...that gate apparently was closed up and the highway patrol wasn't letting anyone out. After about an hour and a half, Alex had enough and she had to go to the bathroom so Gini headed to find out what was going on and to let her poor child finally relieve herself. 30 min later Gini and Alex returned and we found out that the highway patrol was the problem. The fair wanted to open more exits but because of they weren't in charge of the streets, they were forced to leave the exits closed. So....Gini took matters into her own hands. Somehow she made friends with the head of security at the fair, got the number of the head patrolman and left him a colorful message on how much we were enjoying sitting out here for 2+ hours. Corbin and I were saying that "Crazy Gini" was coming out to make sure we were going to get out of there in record time.
Crazy Gini came through and after 2 1/2 hours and a few conversations with the police, they opened the gate, and we were the 10th person through and we were home 10 minutes later. Crazy got it done!!!!!!
Sunday we took a trip to Costco for more Thomas (Namas as Gwennie calls him) DVDs as Corbin and I are sick of the 2 she watches over and over and came across the coolest Thomas toy ever which will be making an appearance around Christmas.
Here's the pictures from the weekend and a video of Gwennie raising the roof to the new Thomas song (they've made Thomas into a rap song which was pretty hilarious). If you'd like to see a moving rendition of the original click on Rich and Jess Christenson's blog done by their nephew Conner.
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