At The State Fair

 It has been years since I have been to the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh.  Trish has never been, so, we started this trip with car service in Durham and an afternoon at the Fair.

I was expecting things to be as I remembered them, but, times and interests (and perhaps COVID) have changed the Fair.  There were so many more rides and food booths than ever in the past.  And, the rides were more TERRIBLE than ever…if you are inclined to motion sickness.  We stood back, watched, and listened to the screams!

Too high up for me!

The Fair was very short on animals.  In older times there were whole buildings filled with chickens, rabbits, goats, and other animals.  This year there seemed to be mostly cows and pigs with a scattering of goats and mixed poultry.  No exotics!  We missed that.

A tired mama with her new babies.

What we enjoyed most were the giant champion pumpkins and watermelons.  If we ever managed to grow something like this, we would never be able to lift it to bring it to the Fair.  We were really filled with admiration at calculating how many average pounds per day the giant pumpkins would have to gain.

Hundreds of pounds of pumpkins!

We finished our visit at the antique tractors while we watched others come staggering off their unwise ride choices.  That’s enough Fair for us for a while.

The old tractors carry many childhood memories.