Eric, DJ and I played hooky on Monday to attend the Minnesota State fair also known as the Great Minnesota get together.
We started the day early by hopping on a standing-room only bus from the Shakopee transit station. Surprisingly it only took us about 35 minutes to get to the fairgrounds. We got to the fair just before 10am and it was already busy!
We ventured across the street to the miracle of birth barn, where we saw baby calves and sheep, and chickens and piggies. They’re also so cute.
After that, we went into the arena where we saw dogs hurting sheep it was pretty cool to see.
We stopped at the pork chop stand so Eric could get his annual pork chop on a stick before we headed to see the 34th infantry Red Bull band playing at the bandshell formerly known as Leinie’s Lodge.
We wandered through the creative arts building to see amazing quilts in art crafts, and went into the education building where we spun the wheels a mini games to win fabulous “free” prizes. We also stopped at the Eco center where we learned about shingles that are now made out of solar panels as well as reuse renew, blah blah blah.
One of our annual stops is to the John Deere made ice cream because the blue ribbon book has a coupon for it this year we got strawberry and as usual, it’s delicious.
Next, it was a stop at the Hamline diner, which has been at the state fair since the 1890s Eric always gets the chicken dinner which was not as good as usual but still pretty good.
We stopped at the University of Minnesota building to see the ax that we won when we beat the badgers last year. Go gophers.
The main reason we went to the fair on Monday is so we can get signatures from some of our favorite Minnesota loon players. Today was Dayne St Clair and Wil Trapp. Alec loves St Clair, our goalkeeper, so we bought a pair of goalie gloves the night before and had him sign them. He even personalized it with Alec’s name!
Next step was the Horticulture building where saw beautiful flower bouquets, Christmas tree trees and very large vegetables. This year‘s largest pumpkin weighed 1511 pounds!
DJ and Eric got ice cream at the Dairy booth and we saw the butter sculptures of the Princess K of the Milky Way princesses.
We looked at all the Minnesota fish at the DNR pond and I finally got my corn on the cob.
The last stop of our day was over to Lulu‘s where I got deep fried ranch dressing. It wasn’t as good as last year’s. I don’t think I’ll get it again.
Overall, it was a great day at the fair. The weather was beautiful. It never really got above 72°. It was sunny and comfortable. Per usual, we were there on a record-breaking day. Over 145,000 people visited making it largest first Monday attendance.
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