A special visit to the Iowa State Fair and celebrating 100 years of the Butter Cow. Let me explain. We left Omaha/Council Bluffs with all our RV problems fixed and headed east to Des Moines. We stopped for lunch at a little cafe and ate and laughed the entire time. I got a tiny speck of toast in my eye. I don't know how, but it happened and Jeff couldn't resist making a toast to my eye and other horrible jokes. We just sat there and giggled. Anyway we got to our campground and collapsed. When we woke today the sun was shining and a perfect day to spend at the fair. The Iowa State Fair is reported to be the largest in the country. It is very organized with huge fields for parking and Shriners driving golf carts to take you from your car to the main gate.The grounds include a few large exhibition buildings as well as livestock buildings. There's a full amusement park and, of course, the food. We did not see the now infamous deep fried stick of butter, but did see a booth with every kind of candy bar fried with long lines waiting for the cholesterol elevators.
Our first stop was lunch and I saw these potato chips going by and couldn't resist. They are called tater ribbons and they are fried strips of potato chips with a cheese dip. OMG - Good! Next we visited the agriculture/egg building and Jeff posed with a huge pumpkin. We stood in line to see the butter cow and I'll put the pictures in another blog. We did lots of fun things like pretend to drive the big tractors and rode the ferris wheel.
Seeing the livestock is always fun and we went to an air conditioned building to watch the judging of horses. Also saw sheep, pigs, goats and lots of cows. The biggest boar was named Tiny and he weighed just under 1200 pounds. Bubba, the bull, weighed almost 2000 pounds and had a gold ring in his nose. Thought the cow in the last photo was very pretty.
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