All's Fair
If I'd brought the right cable, I could portray the day in pictures. But I dinneh.
A sharp knock on the door at 10:00. Carol asking herself loud enough to suspect another person with her- "Where could he be?" I'm 2 hours past my alarm, and we should be getting in the car right now. Shorts, shirt, glasses, teeth, shoes, we gone.
Without breakfast, I settled for a Donner after the first show. Today's shows were silly, as more kids had a pouty freak-out just before the show than I'd seen, just suddenly throwing off their costumes and curling up in a ball before fleeing.
As I walked around, I was reminded more and more of the Puyallup Fair. Here, there are more cheap crap stands. And - remember the adventure walk ride thing at the Puyallup? It was a narrow affair where kids wold walk through some inflatable blocker things, then up a rope net, doubling back through some stretched-tight rubber wire, then up a rickety suspension bridge, double back, another bridge, then taking a long slide the length of the way down. The entire structure is about 10-15 feet wide and 50-60 feet long, sending kids 30 feet in the air after walking the lenghth of it 4 times. Remember it? Right. Well nowadays, everything at the fair's been whored out. This thing, for some reason, is now called "Shrek Adventure." Spray-painted over whatever used to be there. I strolled through the games area and got yelled at a lot to get cheated out of my money. Didn't remember that part.
Off by its self was DockDogs, the runway/pool get-up where dogs come out and take running leaps after toys tossed by their owners, landing with splash and a wag. There was a golden lab being walked around to collect donations for canine cancer, which - I dunno. Think we should cure human first, and then modify it. Check out these dogs, though, if you can. They're very happy.
Here's where all the silly pictures will go, of the animals and the creepy alien lazer tag, and all the junk for sale. As well as some backstage photos. I think I'm learning something about fairs, but I don't think I like it all that much.
P.S. What a spark that Adam Jones is. I watched almost the entire game today, and I think the Mariners lose that game with Ibanez in left. Jones was 2-4, 2 runs (including a major manufacture on reaching on the error and then running around Boston as they got sloppy).
Pictures - on Tuesday.
A sharp knock on the door at 10:00. Carol asking herself loud enough to suspect another person with her- "Where could he be?" I'm 2 hours past my alarm, and we should be getting in the car right now. Shorts, shirt, glasses, teeth, shoes, we gone.
Without breakfast, I settled for a Donner after the first show. Today's shows were silly, as more kids had a pouty freak-out just before the show than I'd seen, just suddenly throwing off their costumes and curling up in a ball before fleeing.
As I walked around, I was reminded more and more of the Puyallup Fair. Here, there are more cheap crap stands. And - remember the adventure walk ride thing at the Puyallup? It was a narrow affair where kids wold walk through some inflatable blocker things, then up a rope net, doubling back through some stretched-tight rubber wire, then up a rickety suspension bridge, double back, another bridge, then taking a long slide the length of the way down. The entire structure is about 10-15 feet wide and 50-60 feet long, sending kids 30 feet in the air after walking the lenghth of it 4 times. Remember it? Right. Well nowadays, everything at the fair's been whored out. This thing, for some reason, is now called "Shrek Adventure." Spray-painted over whatever used to be there. I strolled through the games area and got yelled at a lot to get cheated out of my money. Didn't remember that part.
Off by its self was DockDogs, the runway/pool get-up where dogs come out and take running leaps after toys tossed by their owners, landing with splash and a wag. There was a golden lab being walked around to collect donations for canine cancer, which - I dunno. Think we should cure human first, and then modify it. Check out these dogs, though, if you can. They're very happy.
Here's where all the silly pictures will go, of the animals and the creepy alien lazer tag, and all the junk for sale. As well as some backstage photos. I think I'm learning something about fairs, but I don't think I like it all that much.
P.S. What a spark that Adam Jones is. I watched almost the entire game today, and I think the Mariners lose that game with Ibanez in left. Jones was 2-4, 2 runs (including a major manufacture on reaching on the error and then running around Boston as they got sloppy).
Pictures - on Tuesday.
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