Friday, August 24, 2001

It should be noted that before this trip to the fair, we engaged in the attempt to hit baseballs at a batting cage. Kevin did much better than I, and we both injured ourselves, but not seriously enough to impact our fair activities.

We ended up arriving about 6:30, and staying until about 10:30.

Transportation: U of M Park-N-Ride.

Weather: Perfect.

Things we saw: MPR booth, Dog building, Cyber Ballpark, Technology pavilion, Fine Arts building, pre-teen talent show, warm-up at the band shell, Kidway, WCCO radio booth (checking the score of the game with KC), Bazaar, Midway x 2, horse and cow barns.

Things we ate: Cheese curds x 2, 1919 root beer, Tom Thumb donuts, Vescio's garlic bread, corn on the cob, alligator sausage on a stick, burger, jumbo Mountain Dew.

Weird thing we did: Went back to the Twins booth for a second helping of free baseball cards (pretending like we'd never been there before).

Celebrity sighting: Ron Schara's dog, Raven, from Minnesota Bound.

Kevin gets some cheese curds (above) and we visit the so-called Cyber Ballpark (below, not as impressive as it sounds).

This is not the batting cage we tried -- this was just for kids.

Below, a glorious panorama from the spot in front of the cheese curd stand.
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One of the fair icons, the cheese curd stand in the food building.

An icon of a different sort: Raven, the famous hound.

The new sky ride up to Machinery Hill.