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Sat, Sep. 22nd, 2007
Country fair!
Sat, Sep. 22nd, 2007 08:21 pmToday we went to a country fair! I have never been to one before, but this one promised apple picking and a corn maze. Alas, it was not a giant county fair with deep-fried twinkies and crafts contests and awards for biggest vegetables, but still! I feel very superficially touristy American.
I got llama and goat spit on my hands when I fed them, and yelled "llama llama llama" and thought of VVC. Then we checked out a little rabbit playground, populated with rabbits up for adoption. There was a huge cluster of white rabbits gathered together, all engaged in grooming each other, sleeping, and all around being social. We looked some more, only to discover a black rabbit hidden behind a playhouse, lurking.
"OMG! He's Sasuke as a rabbit!" Rilina said.
"He so is! Maybe his hair will turn purple."
Clearly Sasuke-rabbit was lurking there, marinating in his own angst and scorning the sympathy and fur-licking that the othershinobi rabbits had to offer.
When we had returned, Sasuke-rabbit had stopped lurking behind the house, only to be lurking next to the food. Presumably his angst continued to o'erhang him like a hat.
Also! There was a giant rubber ducky perched over a ton of water pumps, for no reason I could figure out. Maybe the pumps were for a rubber duck race?
OH! Also, there was the best sign ever at the fair! Neon yellow and orange letters over a rustic wooden structure helpfully spelled out "HAYRIDE OF THE LOST." The only way this could have been better is if it had been a Hayride of the Damned!
We then fumbled our way through a corn maze. I wonder who came up with the idea of corn mazes. Like, some random person standing in the middle of corn fields suddenly thought, "Hey! I could make a maze here and make some money!" Thankfully, there were no aliens or children with creepy eyes lurking in the midst of the corn, though there were a lot of bendy, stalky non-corn plants that attempted to attack us. We also failed miserably at finding these six posts and the corresponding hold punches (I accidentally typoed that as "sex posts," which is an entirely different thing!).
After that was apple picking at some rather scrawny trees. One of the apple varieties was labelled "Fugi," and we couldn't figure out if that was a different variety of apple, or if was "Fuji" misspelled. We weren't allowed to pick any of them, so I couldn't tell from taste. The honeycrisps had pretty much all been picked clean, though I grabbed one off the ground and dusted it off (it was pretty tasty). Mostly we ended up getting ruby jons, some red deliciouses and some golden deliciouses. I vaguely remember my sister telling me that really fresh golden deliciouses are actually good and not the gross mealy things in supermarkets. So far, I haven't tried any, so no conclusions there. Rilina had a ruby jon, but said, "It tasted apple-like? I don't know, I can't tell."
Then we had corn dogs for lunch! Whoo! And we split an apple fritter (really tasty) and an apple cinnamon donut (pretty tasty, but not as good as the donut from yesterday. In fact, the donut from yesterday is the best donut I think I have ever had, with the possible exception of the Mister Donut chewy ones, but that doesn't quite count as it is not a traditional donut).
Also, I keep trying to find After School Nightmare 1 in a bookstore, since Rilina has 2-4 and I really want to read it. But we have gone to three different bookstores, and all of them don't have it! Curses.
I got llama and goat spit on my hands when I fed them, and yelled "llama llama llama" and thought of VVC. Then we checked out a little rabbit playground, populated with rabbits up for adoption. There was a huge cluster of white rabbits gathered together, all engaged in grooming each other, sleeping, and all around being social. We looked some more, only to discover a black rabbit hidden behind a playhouse, lurking.
"OMG! He's Sasuke as a rabbit!" Rilina said.
"He so is! Maybe his hair will turn purple."
Clearly Sasuke-rabbit was lurking there, marinating in his own angst and scorning the sympathy and fur-licking that the other
When we had returned, Sasuke-rabbit had stopped lurking behind the house, only to be lurking next to the food. Presumably his angst continued to o'erhang him like a hat.
Also! There was a giant rubber ducky perched over a ton of water pumps, for no reason I could figure out. Maybe the pumps were for a rubber duck race?
OH! Also, there was the best sign ever at the fair! Neon yellow and orange letters over a rustic wooden structure helpfully spelled out "HAYRIDE OF THE LOST." The only way this could have been better is if it had been a Hayride of the Damned!
We then fumbled our way through a corn maze. I wonder who came up with the idea of corn mazes. Like, some random person standing in the middle of corn fields suddenly thought, "Hey! I could make a maze here and make some money!" Thankfully, there were no aliens or children with creepy eyes lurking in the midst of the corn, though there were a lot of bendy, stalky non-corn plants that attempted to attack us. We also failed miserably at finding these six posts and the corresponding hold punches (I accidentally typoed that as "sex posts," which is an entirely different thing!).
After that was apple picking at some rather scrawny trees. One of the apple varieties was labelled "Fugi," and we couldn't figure out if that was a different variety of apple, or if was "Fuji" misspelled. We weren't allowed to pick any of them, so I couldn't tell from taste. The honeycrisps had pretty much all been picked clean, though I grabbed one off the ground and dusted it off (it was pretty tasty). Mostly we ended up getting ruby jons, some red deliciouses and some golden deliciouses. I vaguely remember my sister telling me that really fresh golden deliciouses are actually good and not the gross mealy things in supermarkets. So far, I haven't tried any, so no conclusions there. Rilina had a ruby jon, but said, "It tasted apple-like? I don't know, I can't tell."
Then we had corn dogs for lunch! Whoo! And we split an apple fritter (really tasty) and an apple cinnamon donut (pretty tasty, but not as good as the donut from yesterday. In fact, the donut from yesterday is the best donut I think I have ever had, with the possible exception of the Mister Donut chewy ones, but that doesn't quite count as it is not a traditional donut).
Also, I keep trying to find After School Nightmare 1 in a bookstore, since Rilina has 2-4 and I really want to read it. But we have gone to three different bookstores, and all of them don't have it! Curses.
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