Grabin some at the Dutchess County Fair.

Today was the Dutchess County Fair. I bought the tickets on line on the 22nd and received an e-mail telling me I had five tickets and the extension is where they were.  I checked it out and they were there.
     ON the 28th, today I received an e-mail telling me the tickets were used. I thought someone had taken them and used them. When We got to the fair, they were fine. I don't know what the e-mail was all about.

     Every year We went a different way then the GPS told us to. And each year it seemed the route was way longer then it had to be. This Year We figured the best thing to do was follow the GPS. In the past I figured the traffic on the GPS would of made the trip longer then it had to be. This year the traffic made the trip longer then it had to be and everyone was in a crabby mood by the time We reached the fair.
     The plan was to get the girls up at 9:15, they eat and we leave by 9:45, pick up Nancy at 10am and get to the fair by noon. I got the girls up at 9AM, they ate and We left at 10:20, picked Nancy up at 10:30, took the slow direct route to the fair and got there at 12:45. Everyone was grumpy as we pulled into the north parking lot. We usually parked in the south independent parking lots and paid $10.00. Never knew the northern lots were free. They were nice and close to the gate and easy to get to the car to put things in. This year the free parking we didn't need to put anything in the car.

     We walked through the main gate and headed for the bathrooms, first things first. After that it was food and then finally after about two hours about 2pm or so it was time to enjoy the fair. This Year I gave up on Philadelphia Cheese steaks after two years of lousy food. So this year I got adventuresome and tried some BBQ'd spare ribs. The awning said it was award winning. and for fourteen dollars for half a rack (6 pieces)  it seemed reasonable, IT WASN'T. It was at best OK. There was a small piece at the bottom of the small pile that was soft and tasty. Maybe next year. We walked around the barns looking at the cows and every time the girls, Teri, Nastia and Elena saw a calf they were in love with it and wanted to take it home. On the outside of the barns the front end of the cows got to take in the sights and the sounds of the fair. Nastia and Elena would go up and pet the friendly faces of the cows. One Cow, a brown and white one, I think they are a Swiss something or other wanted to return the favor and starts to munch on Nastia's black loose shirt, Nastia laughing tries to pull away grabbing her shirt. I'm

 standing there with everyone else laughing, when I realize I should be taking a picture of this. By the time I get my camera up ,she is free.I tell her I missed it would she get the cow to do it again, Nastia ever the obedient daughter waves the tail of her shirt in front of the cows face trying to get her to do it again. I stop Nastia afraid the cow will do it a second time and Nastia will end up without a shirt.
  Around this time Elena wanted to get Nancy's attention and goes to grab at the tail of her shirt, but misses and gets the seat of her pants. So for the rest of the day Elena was accused of getting a free feel of her Aunt.

Elena and Nastia middle and right  of picture took a dozen to get this one.

    The Danger Girls made a subdued reappearance at the fair. They both had twenty-two tickets to spread around the rides and decide which ones to go on. I did notice a disturbing trend again at the fair. You buy tickets for 'the rides' and there are several rides that only accept cash. It was the same at Great Adventure a couple of years ago. I felt cheated there and a little cheated here. Unfortunately at Great Adventure they wanted to go on those rides, but we said no. Fortunately at the fair they said"oh five dollars, we can't go on that." The subdued appearance was good with me after the ride in Texas breaking apart at a fair in July. The Ride that was similar to the one that broke apart was a six ticket ride when they only had nine tickets left. If they went on it that would leave three tickets and no ride was three tickets. They hit the zipper,fireball and a few other rides and some of the new rides for this year. After the rides We met up with Teri and Nancy who were going through the craft buildings.
     We wandered around to the Apple Cider place, Teri had an Apple Cider shake; vanilla ice cream and apple cider, it was good. I had an apple cider donut, it was better last year. This was the third or fourth year we were at the fair, so about four-thirty we were done. We left and made our way to Olive Garden, bet you were expecting that other place, Cracker Barrel. The food was good and we ended up getting home after 10:30. It was a fun night.