The Ohio State Fair - Home of fried EVERYTHING

Did you know that you can fry just about everything here in Ohio?  There are your basics like french fries, fried green tomatoes, and fried twinkies.....but have you ever had/heard of fried poptarts, oreos, snickers, mac n' cheese, manicotti?  Really the list goes on and on.  All of these were found at our state fair.  Whoo weee.  

We tried the fried poptart

fried twinkie

and fried oreos

James is sad because mom wouldn't let him get a fried binkie (really this is his reaction to me at the pig races)

Whitney's fried Twinkie

This is me!  I am so excited because I got picked to be a pig cheerer - what does that entail you ask?  Well you cheer really hard for your pig - like go crazy because you want it to win because if it wins you get a blue ribbon and a sticker.  I cheered like a mad man for my little piggy to win.  He came in last.  The 3 other cheerers were under 12 years old.  :)  I wonder if I went a little too mad and maybe scared my little piggy.....I know I scared James.

James didn't like Mom cheering for the pig - he didn't like it when anyone cheered for the pigs so dad sacrificed and missed out on the pig races.

If you look close you can see little pig heads.  They kept peeking out of their starting box.  I thought it was so funny and cute. (if you click on the picture it will make it bigger)

The pigs RACING - why are they willing to race?  They get iced oatmeal cookies at the end.

These lovely ladies LOVE their iced oatmeal cookies....looks like they have had a few huh?

Whitney and Devon trying out Davey Jones Locker.  Devon loves it.

Yes, you can even get one of these at the fair, with a cherry on top - YUM!