Day 15 – State Fair Update

We arrived at the state fair around 6 and it was still hot but there was enough shade that it wasn’t a problem. The Frito pie looked a little heavy, so we opted for some Navaho fry bread instead. It is flat deep fried bread that you put powdered sugar, cinnamon or honey on top. Quite good.

The fair has acres of amusement rides and booths selling items of all sorts. Looked at a new cowboy hat, but it was $45 so I bought a t-shirt instead. The rodeo was much better than we expected and it was definitely a cowboy crowd. We had seen a rodeo before in NJ, but this was real professionals. Kind of like the difference between a high school game and a pro game. They had all the events – bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping (that was amazing), bull riding (see picture), etc. The rodeo clown was hysterical. Two jokes that I remember - he said he expected Dallas would go 11 and 5; 11 arrests with 5 convictions. He also said one steer wrestler was so big that they had to feed him hay. That killed with the ranchers. The Mark Chesnutt concert afterwards was rockin’, but his new music isn’t as good as his older stuff. Not that I’m that familiar with his older stuff, but I did make a CD which we listened to on the trip.