Had a good time at the fair yesterday. We were there all day and I mean ALL day. We got up in the morning and got ready and two of my friends came over right at 10. The fair opened at 11, so we left the house at 10, stopped and picked up the kid's schedule, then stopped at the bank, and found parking about two blocks from the fairgrounds. We got there at 10:40 and waited until they opened the gates.
There were four of us in the morning and we went on all the rides at least twice before settling down for some nasty food. I had a Rockstar Float. THAT was interesting. Loved it. We walked the booths where they had a great animal exhibit with snakes, armadillos, hedgehogs, and various bugs. Rode the rides AGAIN and then we all got exhausted and sun drained and needed a break. We sat for about an hour looking at artwork, all the food entries, the 4H animals - all the standard fair type stuff. During that point we found a great hat dealer and I got a new hat. It looks damn good on me too.
Around 4 a couple of our other friends joined us so we rode the rides AGAIN. (There's a reason I keep mentioning how many times we rode the rides, trust me.) About 5, two more friends joined us but they were hungry and we needed to get in line for the concert. NIGHT RANGER! Yeah, I know. Funny thing with the exception of like four songs I never liked Night Ranger in the 80s either. I always saw them as similar to Def Leppard in that the first album was hard rocking and fun but then they do one power ballad slow song and they are marked for the rest of their career. So I wanted to hear those four songs. Otherwise, it was more the joke of it than anything else. But anyway, we walked over and the line was small but definitely a line. We all got in line while they went off and got food. The doors were supposed to open at 6:30 but they started letting us in at about 6:10 because it was so hot outside. I think they figured it was better to have us inside buying booze and water and food than standing outside bitching in the heat? It was GA for the most part. They had one section as reserved seating but that $30 a ticket. Um no? It's the fair. I am not dropping $30 to see Night Ranger at the fair. Sorry. But that was the first 10 rows. We rushed in and I got us all row 11. There were 7 of us and there were like 15 seats per row. We were good. For the next hour or so we sat and talked and enjoyed the AC. Plus we had fun making fun of all the other people there who were starting to get lit at 6:30. We had one crazy drunk homeless guy next to us. Um wow. He was just out there. When the show started he was all over the place.
They came out around 7:40 and played until 9. It wasn't a bad show. I am not going to knock them for their performance regardless of whether I like their music. They had fun, the drunk old people had fun, we mostly had fun. We were all so tired and hot that it was hard at a couple of points to show major enthusiasm. But in the end it was all good. We got out around 9, rode more rides until about 10, had a late night snack (I had a piece of pizza the size of my head) and called it a night. ALL DAY AT THE FAIR.
We got home and mellowed out then off to bed. That's when the fun started. I got room spins. I had NOTHING to drink yesterday. BUT I rode the rides so many times and ate such nasty food (giant pizza, rockstar float, bbq, fried onion loaf, fried artichoke, garlic fries, etc) that my head and stomach were like nope, you paying now bitch. I ended up on the couch around 12:40 and that helped. I was able to put my back against the back of the couch and it mellowed out the spins. Slept until 9. Yay me.
One side note - this was the first time I spent an extended amount of time with one of the people who went with us. I am glad we spent time. I learned about this person and found out they are really cool and fun to be around. A new person for my inner circle of party friends in the future.
Now to enjoy my father's day.
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