Red River Valley Fair

This weekend is the annual Red River Valley Fair. We have friends from church who had extra tickets and gave them to us for free so we decided to go check it out. It's a pretty small fair all things considered but we had a great time. We got BBQ from a food truck for a place called 'Pit Happens'. Guy got a brisket sandwich and I got pulled pork. We both thought the barbecue sauce was good, but Guy thought there could be more sauce on the brisket. It tasted a little dry.

Pit happens BBQ

We then stayed and watched the sly hand magician from Dallas. He did a great job talking and interacting with the kids. Some of his tricks Guy and I were impressed at and others of them were pretty obvious. Still fun to watch though. 

Marty the magician

Afterwards we walked through and looked at the exhibits. Some of the artwork was stunning, there were also several really neat quilts and crafts. One vendor was selling goat milk soap, and cheese. Another vendor also had different types of woodwork signs, crosses, ornaments, etc.  We walked into the local exhibit as well and got to meet a few people running for city council. There were also several booths with people displaying their guns, and where you could enter to win a gun. The fire department, police department and sheriff's office were all out as well with different activities for kids. There was even a small booth for Hilary fans and an even larger booth for Trump supporters.We sure live in a very conservative area. 

After we looked at the displays we went to another food truck and got dessert. This one was called the chocolate kettle. They had all kinds of chocolate dipped treats. From cheesecake slices, fruit, cookies, peanut butter all the way to pretzels with dipping chocolate. We got a few different pieces to try as we walked around the midland to look at the carnival rides. The lines for the rides were really long and tickets for wristbands to ride the rides were $25; so we skipped that part and just looked at what kind of rides they had. Some of them looked a little sketchy. 

One of the quilts

They even had a petting zoo for kids. The friend who gave us tickets told us how her two year old daughter got them kicked out because the 2 year old kept chasing the animals and picking them up. We skipped the petting zoo though since it was mostly dark and the animals weren't really out anymore. 

It was a smaller county fair but still pretty fun. We had a good time.