Spent the morning at home, resting, picking up the house, doing laundry and trying to catch up on the blog. After 12 hours of sleep, I was feeling better, but not ready for another 12 hour day at the fair. Monday is what I call “Wheels Day”. The fair combined Kids Day & Seniors Day. Nothing but strollers, wheelchairs and scooters. Not fair to the Seniors in my opinion.

Arrived on the grounds again, just in time to see the tail end of the parade.

Ran through th education building for Sin Day 5 (numbered 36?!?!)

But who was waiting to greet me at the Forest, but my dear friend Helen! I needed to grab a bite to eat (since I forgot to eat lunch at home) so we walked and caught up with our lives as I grabbed an Iron Range Meat & Potato hot dish at Giggles.

 

Helen got her #11 punch on the walking tour and I made my way back to work…a couple minutes late! Oops!

As I was manning the photo booth, I saw a guy checking out my shade tree. I jokingly asked him if he was assessing our arbor sustainability factor. He said yeah, we might need to remove some weight here. I didn’t realize he was a specialist from the State Fair grounds crew and was in fact assessing our tree stability! Another guy with credentials arrived and I agreed the tree had quite a fissure. He replied “you’re looking at the ~good~ side”! I walked around and yikes! Hopefully we won’t lose the whole limb or more. The credentialed guy said “better the tree than the building”. I disagreed! “We can move the building!” I said. The plan was to cut at midnight. I’ll have to see what tomorrow brings!

These two were having their annual “sisters” day at the fair. I had to coerce Gayle to play along! Wendy was game! They started out early so it had been a long day with lots of new foods & fun beverages so they were about done!

My only other visitor today was another’s Girl Scout friend Jahna! She was heading to her volunteer shift at Math on a Stick, just up the road. It’s a wonderful manipulative math learning experience! Earlier when I was chatting with Helen, she tearfully told me how happy the Math on a Stick exhibit made her. She said if she’d have been taught math like that, her life would have been so different!

A lady stopped by wearing this shirt.  I love it, if you don’t know what you’re reading, it might look like a law firm!  I asked her were she found it and I should have known the answer.  “i like you” she said!

I shared with my boss-mans that I had yet to see a big vegetable, so I was off to A-Hort…..they pointed to each other!

I wanted to see all the veggies before they’re withered and rotten.

 

After stopping for pie, I  walked in through the Craft Brew exhibit.  I honestly haven’t been here since it first opened a few years ago because it’s always so crowded.  They have expanded and it’s much more user friendly!  I was unaware of the Craft Brew Art wall!

I always have trouble finding the annex with the vegetables, but I found this big blue ribbn guiding the way.  It might not be new, but Its the first time I’ve seen it!

Some beautiful veggies representing the best Minnesota has to offer!

 

Extra large varieties too!

I headed over to see what I thought was the Gladioli Flower show. It’s only day five and I’m already losing track of the days. The Glad show was over the weekend and I missed it. There were a few Glads in the floral displays.

There were themes like “On a Stick” and “Roller Coaster”. Some flower groups and I always love the miniature displays.

These are only three inches tall.

I checked out the Christmas trees and Stella’s “tomat” is now hidden among many ornaments!

I finally connected with Morgan (my niece) and Matt and met them at Sweet Martha’s.  My stash of zip lock bags come in handy when you’re handed a Jenga cookie tower!

I stopped by Tom Thumb and got a bag of donuts for the family too and we walked back to Mom’s together.

On the way home we found the children of my Water Guy!

Tomorrow will be a long day so home early to bed!