Two very different outings - PICS ADDED!

Last Saturday, my parents and my sister were in town. The original reason for the visit?  The Great Minnesota Get-Together (aka, the MN State Fair). Ahhhh.... I love the fair. I would show you pictures but sadly I forgot my camera and forgot to ask my parents and sister for some of their pictures. Oh well. If I get any, I'll have to add them later.  We like to start early and were there by about 8am and started with mini-donuts for breakfast - melt in your mouth yumminess.  Then we headed to the barns (mostly because everything else was closed) and the sheep barn came first.  We got to see some sheared and unsheared and a lady sheep get inseminated by a boy one.... all very interesting fair fare.  Oddly, they were showing and judging rabbits in the sheep barn... we had never seen rabbits at the state fair before, so this was a first.  We looked at all the different kinds and liked them, that is until Greyson's eyes started to itch and water.  We left that barn soon after that.  Next was the oink barn, where oddly they were showing and judging sheep.... still we love seeing the baby oinkers and the largest sow.  Cheese curds (okay) and scottish eggs (YUM!) followed.  As we made our way to the Art Building, we listened and danced to a big band.  We have been interested in buying art in the Art Building but everything we are interested in is sold by the time we get there.  Maybe next year we'll go on the first Thursday instead.  Next were Pronto Pups and then sadly (since there was so much left undone!) and excitedly, my mom, my sister and I left to do something totally different!


Wedding Dress Shopping! So much fun to help my sis try on so many different kinds of dresses and see her light up with excitement when one looks almost perfect on her!  The next few months are going to be full of wedding planning since Liz, as an accountant, won't be able to work on it much from January to April. I'm pretty excited....