The Fair

Had a really good weekend. Friday I went to Shannon's we had dacquiri's and watched Babel and I watched her get sucked into the online game Tribal Wars. (Which I'm glad I never jumped on the band wagon to do) I slept there that night on account of the dacquiri's, and I got up Saturday and it was fair time. I love the fair. I like the rides, and the food and the shows and the animals. If I had a choice I'd go where the fair goes. In the morning I was waiting for everyone to get organised, which was taking a little longer than I liked. So I asked Darrell if he was waiting around for the same thing, and he was so we decided to go. I knew Shannon would be there around 12 sometime but wasn't quite sure. Anyways, I met Darrell in the parking lot and grabbed my cell to meet up with everyone else.

We got there right at 12, right when the midway and the rides were opening. The Zipper was doing its first rounds, the line was non existent and the rides they were giving were really long. So I basically dragged Darrell over there. As we're waiting to get on, I find out, he's never been on any ride ever, in his life. I knew he missed some childhood things that I take for granted, but I didn't know to the extent. So the poor guy was stuck going on the zipper as his first ride ever. I kinda felt bad for that one. The zipper isn't exactly a "starter" ride. It's definitely one of the oldest and scariest rides there. But we made it through, went to see the Strong Man competition, but I was too focused on planning what ride to go on next. Next I subjected Darrell to the Orbiter, which I find as a quite mild ride, but I guess for people who get dizzy it's not. We met up with everyone else after this ride where I continued my adventures down the midway. The new ride called the Twin Flip is lots of fun, it's made it into to my favorites. It feels kinda like the zipper where it flips you upside down and tries to shake all the money out of your pockets.

Eventually I did get dizzy and it was time to eat and take in some shows. I ate a footlong corndog, an elephant ear and a taco in a bag. All met my high standards for fair food. So delicious. Then we sat through a sexist infomercial for kitchenware, saw the Superdogs show, got my horoscope and fortune told for $5, and witnessed a dude wrestling an alligator, and saw the historical Barbie exibit. (They even had a Jem doll exhibit, and I'm proud to say that I'm owner of one of the Misfits that they didn't have....take that exhibit) I had to leave the fair at 8 to pick my sister up. I so could of stayed longer, until the end of the night. There's always next year, no matter how long I stay at the fair, it never seems like it was long enough.

That night we decided to go to Shannon's to watch the meteor shower. It was really good this year, we saw quite a few shooting stars. And that brings me to this week. I realized I hadn't ridden my bike in a while so I took it out for an hour last night. Man, there are alot of hills in S'toon. This time I ventured off the trails by the river into the residential area by the river on the other side. There are a couple streets that I just turned around and let myself go back down the hill at warp 9. It wasn't worth it to make it up the hill.

Tonight there's ball. Our team isn't having very much fun this year and we always lose. Last week most of our team didn't even show up. I had to round up Brandi to come play, which I'm glad I did, she's an awesome player and we were also short of guys, we didn't have a 3rd baseman. Hopefully tonight will be better.

Then this weekend, I don't know what the plan is yet. If it looks like it's going to be nice and sunny at the lake, I think I'll go there, if not, I think I'll stay around Saskatoon for Folkfest. I was never a big fan of Mosaic in Regina, so I don't know what makes me think Folkfest is any different but I'll give it a go if need be.