Annie's first State Fair

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Last weekend, as you all briefly saw in my 14 weeks post, Annie and I went to the State Fair with my mom and sister! One of my favorite posts on this blog is this one from when I went to the fair in 2008 - pre-kid, so I could really just focus on taking photos - it was really fun, and I'd love to do that again. When we went this year, many of my food picks came from this Heavy Table article.

We arrived bright and early, I think a little before 9am. OK, so not that early, but as early as we could manage.

I immediately went to go get my allotted 200mg of caffeine in the form of a vanilla latte

Grandma, Liz and Annie listened to the band play while we waited

First food stop was mini donuts!

Then we had to stop so my sister could watch the Dave Ryan in the morning show from KDWB

Annie tried her first mini donut after an unsuccessful attempt at getting all the sugar off of it - oh well :) Despite her face here, she was a fan

Yay, we're at the fair!

We then went to the Miracle of Birth barn. This was where we saw a pig in labor and I had to step outside to avoid losing the mini donuts I'd just consumed. Good thing Grandma and Aunt Liz were fine taking over Annie duty.

More donuts for Annie!

Annie then got freaked out because this sheep decided to lick her leg

Annie and Aunt Liz visited a few horses and this one neighed in Annie's face really loud - causing her to clutch on to Liz in fear :)

It was a beautiful day for the first Saturday of the fair, so obviously it was packed!

Minneapple pie - the line was long but it moved quickly!

With cinnamon ice cream - SO good!

Annie gives it a thumbs up

Doing a little dancing with Liz

Honey lemonade - quite refreshing!

Next up was the largest peach I have ever seen!

THIS was Annie's favorite of the day, by far.

Just really so happy to be eating peaches and rolling around!

Tried to escape a few times

Still, with the lens cap... give it a rest!

I think it's safe to say Annie liked the fair

In front of the Big Slide - rule #1 was no expectant mothers (weird!) so Liz took her down. I was (not so) secretly glad about this because the slide freaked me out a bit. I am kind of a pansy.

Climbing up!

There they go!

This is the happiest Annie looked on here

Yeah, definitely scared!

Only slightly traumatized

Pronto pups - my must have fair food!

I tried to share with Annie - but she just kept this bite in her mouth for seriously like 20 minutes. I tried to fish it out and she bit me really hard. Ouch!

Walking around on the street. Still with the pronto pup in her mouth.

Liz took these.

Peek a boo?

I took Annie on the carousel and she was a wee bit nervous at first!

This was her face the entire time

And then, she was done with the horse. Too bad my arm is directly in front of her face here...

Until it stopped... then she wanted back on :)

Wasn't about to look HAPPY about it though!

Then I sat around for awhile outside Heritage Square while my mom and sister took Annie shopping with them. I was beat by that point!

I was super full, but rallied for some cheese curds for the 1.5 mile walk back to our house - gave one to Annie, and she wasn't really a fan - strange!!

Goodbye fair! Special thanks to Grandma and Liz for pushing the stroller for me :)