Vacationing and Blogging: The Fun Fair!

You want to know how dedicated I am to blogging? I'm on vacation and we have no wi-fi at our house--just a makeshift situation where my husband can sort of, kind of use his computer to check work stuff--but it would be impossible to upload pics and whatnot, so I am...drum roll, please...

Blogging from McDonald's! That's right, for the remainder of our vacation I'm officially McBlogging.

McD's has wi-fi--which I had to pay for (?) but whatevs--I'll sneak over here after I get the tots to bed and blog my little heart out. I hope someone is actually reading this--please tell me if you are--so I'm not hanging out at McD's alone for nothing!

We've only been here a day and we've already packed in tons of fun--swimming, eating, renting movies--but the highlight so far is that we went to a (my first!) County Fair! Now I'm a hardcore city girl so a county fair is like another world to me. C'mon! Let me show you around!

The fair was hot as blazes and I needed to protect little heads from the sun, so we promptly found a stand that sold kerchiefs? schmatas? I don't know what you call them--but little bandanna-like things you wear on your head. Loser me was reaching for one that I thought had palm trees on it--but it was marijuana plants. Oops! We didn't get that one... Here are the big boys with their funky new headgear:
And, of course, Gooser and Pickle needed them. I think this is a good look for Gooser--this might become a wardrobe staple! I also like the combo of dainty, ruffled dress and skulls on Pickle.

The coolest thing about the fair was all the animals! Goats, chickens, cows--you name it. The kids were in animal heaven and I think it's safe to say that Pickle is officially obsessed with goats.
I'll call these next few photos "Arsty angles of farm animals":

I seem to be drawn to udders!?And cow butts.
Is it just me, or do all chickens look crazy?
Punk rock chicken:
I think this goat likes Teddy...a lot!
Pickle was afraid to touch the baby chick:
They were actually selling the animals!! You could buy a chicken for four dollars! This amazed me somehow--I told you I'm a city girl.

I think I discovered my new favorite restaurant: Porky's!! I would kill for a t-shirt with that pig on it.
Unfortunately, Porky's only serves food on the carnival circuit--it might be awhile until I get my next Porky's fix...They had baked sweet potatoes with butter, cinnamon and marshmallows. Mmmmmmmmm!
And you can't go to a fair and not have a corn dog!
Or cotton candy:

There were plenty of games--that were surprisingly easy to win!

And one with a live mouse! This fair was the real deal, people!! The mouse is dropped onto a spinning wheel and runs into a numbered hole--we won a Batman pillow! I think this could be classified as mouse abuse.
And don't forget the rides!
My poor, sainted husband agreed to go on this one with Patrick (nobody else would!). Amusement park ride or Dante's unwritten tenth circle of Hell? You decide:
It's basically going round and round in a giant circle of terror. They would've had to carry me out on a stretcher if I had gotten on that thing! I'm not sure that Don will ever be the same...

Oh, and, I won a fish!!!
Who is temporarily living in a fair-appropriate container:

I think I should name her Candee Fluff, don't you?

I call this last pic Too Long at the Fair--see the cotton candy smeared all over her face?
I must leave McDonald's now--for I am weary and my McCafe has gone cold. Please join me tomorrow for some more fun-filled McBlogging!

Semi-Bogus Restaurant Adventure Saturday!

Hello from vacation!! We have a really makeshift computer situation here--but I'm going to try my best to keep blogging. I want to continue to post our restaurant adventures, but the place we went to this week was a little on the bogus side, so I don't know if it really counts! We also went to a kind of half-baked place the week before--so I'm including both of them in one post.

The place we went to a couple weeks ago claimed to be African. That's what it said in the Zagat guide which I use as a reference for our food adventures. We got there, and it was a crepe place (?), granted an interesting crepe place, but a crepe place nontheless. I said to the waiter "Isn't this supposed to be an African restaurant?" and that led into a confused ramble about how it started as as African but then somehow morphed into a crepe place. "But," he said we do have an African crepe." So I ordered that. It had nuts and raisins and it was good!

And that was about as African as it got! The kids all had ham and cheese crepes:
Which certainly isn't much of an adventure! But they tasted good!
They had some cool lighting fixtures:
And a nice little tea service:
Although it was CRAZY hot that day:

Luckily they had fun ice water with cucumber and umbrellas:

Turns out my poor niece had heatstroke (that's her with Gooser) only we didn't realize it at the time.

Andy's hair went crazy (LOL)!
Pickle thought the vegetable soup was ok--but, all in all it wasn't much of an adventure!!
Psuedo food adventure #2 was a couple days ago--we attempted to go to a Moroccan restaurant, but it was some kind of weird combo place:
"Israeli and Moroccan Cuisine at its best."

This place was something of a disappointment. They had the typical sampler platter with hummus and falafel, etc.--we've all had that before!

We also ordered some lamb and chicken entrees that were just a'ight. I'm not clear where the Moroccan part came in?
The kids thought the canned nectars were kind of fun:

They got a little silly with food! Andy with pita face:
And Pickle with a pickle:
Pickle was feeding her dolls peas:
And, if you needed to sell a watch--this was your place!
All in all, Pickle thought it was sort of ok...

...but basically a snooze!
Let's hope next week is better! I don't hold out much hope of finding an exotic restaurant in the little town where we're staying...but we shall see!

Pretty Princess! Friday Foto Fiesta!

Hi to all Fiesta Friends and a big thanks to Candid Carrie (look! I remembered the link!) for hosting all the phun!

Here are some pics I took of Pickle over the weekend in her poofy pettiskirt that I call her "cupcake" skirt. I'm sorry to post so many--I couldn't choose! She's playing peek-a-boo in thoe last two! Awwwww!