Yes, the West Virginia State Fair is awesome!!

Today was the nicest summer day we've had in a while.  Sunny but low humidity and in the low 80's.  I love the heat but it's so nice to be able to enjoy being outside without sweating through your clothes and feeling like you are going to pass out.  So nice!

My man treated me to the West Virginia State Fair today and drove us up to Lewisburg, WV (voted the coolest small town in the USA last year).  I'm so glad we went!  The fair was on some very large fairgrounds and was organized really well.  There was a large section for carnival rides and games that we bypassed and several long rows of food vendors that we checked out first.  Any kind of carnival food that you could possibly want was there: funnel cakes, elephant ears, cotton candy, fried candy bars & Oreos, burgers, hotdogs, pizza, chicken on a stick, Philly steak sandwiches, ribbon fries coated with cheese and ranch dressing, and even salads.  Yep, salads.  That made us laugh a bit... 

My view while I ate a slice of pizza.  From a NY subway, perhaps?

After walking through the maze of food and beverage vendor area, you got to a large horse racing track and a smaller horse track where show horses were strutting their stuff for blue ribbons.  We watched them for a while and then headed off to see all the livestock shows.  Ribbons were awarded to the best llamas, sheep, goats, hogs, cows, horses, and rabbits.  Honestly, I think my fav were the rabbits - so CUTE!!  It was also really fun to watch small children wrangle their goats in the show ring.  Not an easy task, let me tell you... 

Pig Love

The draft horses were gigantically tall and mostly napping.  I would have loved to have seen them out in the ring but they did their thing before we arrived.  We saw some cloggers dancing on a stage and, if we had stayed late tonight, we would have seen a singing act and fireworks.  Somewhere there was a pie judging contest that we weren't able to locate but we ate so much junk food that this might have put us over the edge anyway.

By 3:30, we were totally wiped out from all the sunshine and sugar and headed home.  It was awesome...  Definitely one of the best times I've had since moving down to VA!

This is a WV bunny but a bunch of NJ bunnies were there too...