summer’s last hurrah
last friday evening, we headed to the state fair, also known as “the great minnesota get-together”. the arrival of the state fair is a last hurrah of sorts as it marks the end of glorious summer days. it was also our last hurrah as a family for two reasons: this will be the last year we’ll be able to go 
, and it’ll be our last family outing for a while as phil just finished his month of dermatology and is now entrenched in the long hours of his peds rotation. though he says it’s not quite as busy as medicine was, the call schedule will be every fourth night again.
with two little ones in tow, we didn’t get to spend the full day at the fair and so missed a lot of stuff. but! we did make sure mikey got to play on the tractors. 
future farmer of america?
me and my babies. i can’t believe allie is already five months old!
every year we go to the fair (and we’ve gone EVERY year!), phil always visits the u of m building. every year, i walk through thinking it’s exactly the same. but this year, phil got me to go back in to see the little brown jug – the trophy passed between the minnesota and michigan football teams. this is the first time we’ve had it in nineteen years!
we also visited the miracle of birth center where a baby calf had just been born minutes before we got there. kinda glad we missed it because that might have been traumatizing for mikey. but the little baby animals were soooo cute!
baby ducks
piglets!
just be glad you’re not this pig momma!
here’s mikey yelling, “too BIG!!!” at this very pregnant goat.
here’s that baby calf getting up on its feet for the first time.
what else did we do there? oh yeah… we ATE!
mikey’s personal favorite– kettle corn.
my personal fave– fried green tomatoes.
phil’s pick of the night– giant turkey leg.
mikey enjoyed it as well.
and no trip to the fair would be complete without a deep fried candy bar! (we shared one between the three of us, so it wasn’t THAT bad, right?!)
thanks for the memories!
13 Comments
MominIreland
Great pictures!
mrsstellalee
man, that turkey leg sure looks good!! i’ve always wanted to try that fried candy bar thing. 🙂
nahyoojin
Fried green tomatoes are real?? I thought it was just a dumb movie title.
joannaaaakim
aaaah..it looks like you’re gonna miss Minnesota!
mrs_shinfucius
i miss a good ole’ state fair. i wanted to go to the one in l.a. county but i don’t think hans seemed too excited about it. maybe it’s different here. well, i still want to go one day.
mrssjlee
i’m tellin’ ya, minnesota has the mostest funnest things to do!!! i’ve been to county fairs here but i don’t think their that great.
ohmobile
goodness sakes…are ya’ll ever NOT smiling and happy-go-lucky?!?!
another fun tsai family outing!!!
iluvcastaic
Mmmmmm…turkey leg.
Kavedissian
ooh I LOVE fried green tomatoes. hmmm, i might have to steal (er borrow) some of our neighbors green tomatoes they have growing in the front yard to make me some.
did that turkey leg give Phil a tryptophan high?
Good luck to Phil on his Peds rotation…that one might be hard having two little ones at home.
joesee22
Oh gosh…I see a future farmer of america! I love kettle corn and turkey legs.
Bungie
ooohhh…. fried green tomatoes sounds yummy. i’ve always been curious about how it tastes. mmmm…. getting hungry…
lschnell
What do ya mean your last MN state fair?? You mean you’re not gonna fly back here every summer for some good ol’ fashioned fun? Depression.
Kidding. Mikey sure looks small on that lawn mower….I wonder what he’d think about sitting in a real tractor? Or, maybe you guys did that too. Looks like you had a blast at the fair! Even a cute family picture to capture the grand finale.
lkrus
You Minnesotans and your fair. You are all crazy!!! Mikey looks great on the John Deere, and other great family pics. Your kids are so adorable. And Phil where was the Floyd of Rosedale Trophy…….OH YA IOWA HAWKEYES have it!!!! Go Hawks!!!!!!!!
Luke