State Fair

So I went to the Utah State Fair a couple weeks ago. It was pretty standard fair stuff- rides and fatty food. I went early in the day with my friend Kristen and her son Carter. The first thing we did was eat. I had an awesome corn on the cob and a deep fried Twinkie! We walked around and looked at the animals and other exhibits.

Here is Carter with the tigers.

Here is Kristen and Carter with the goats.

Then came the best part of the fair!! We went to the Freak Show!

Chupacabra!!!

Six legged Cow!

Mermaids!

Two headed babies!!!

If you want to see more Freak Show pics, I will post them on my myspace page

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Later in the day, I came back to the fair with Matt. We rode on a couple rides that were really fun but being that I had only eaten a corn on the cob and a deep fried Twinkie that day, I didn't feel so hot after the ride. Other than that I had a pretty good day at the fair.

**On a completely different note...I just wanted to post a quick warning on the dangers of Ding Dong wrappers. Unless you eat Ding Dongs on a regular basis you are probably as unaware as I was that they are wrapped in foil, not plastic. I little while back I was eating a Ding Dong and had only unwrapped it half way because I only had one hand free. It was kind of warm in my apartment and so the chocolate on the outside was beginning to melt and the Ding Dong slipped out of the wrapper and rolled down the front of my white shirt. In the process of trying to stop it from falling down my shirt, I tried to catch it with my mouth but it still fell out. I sat there for a moment, annoyed with the chocolate on my shirt, and thought that my lip felt kind of funny. Sure enough, the foil had cut my lip! And I was bleeding! I wish I had taken a picture to show my damaged lip but unfortunately I had not. So the moral of this story is NEVER LEAVE DING DONG'S IN THE WRAPPER WHILE YOU EAT THEM! hahaha! Man I felt like such a dumb ass.

UMFA

Matt and I went to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on Saturday. They have a special exibit right now that has artist like Monet, Picasso, Dali, ect. I was really excited to see Monet and Dali but it turns out that a painting by van Gogh was my favorite. It is called The Poplars at Saint-Remy. I got half way through the exibit and had to go back and see it again. I've seen tons of van Gogh paintings on prints and in books but you can't imagine how much you miss when you don't see it in person. The texture and emotion of the paintings (there were only two from van Gogh) was just amazing. Here is a pic of the program. On the front is The Poplars at Saint-Remy.



I wish we had stuff like this around here more often.

Busy Weekend

I have had a very busy and fun weekend.

On Saturday, Matt and I went to a gaming and technology convention called Geex. It was alright but not what I expected. We mostly went there to see a speaker on how to make your own video game. He had some really good info and so it was worth the time spent. The rest of the convention was kind of lacking. They had a huge gaming competition but I wasn't really interested and a weird LAN party thing. There were some booths but none of them had anything really that great. I did order the news paper though so that worked out.

Later that night we had tickets to The Police! The concert was at the Usana Ampetheatre and it was so much fun! Elvis Costello opened and he was cool but it was really all about Sting. He is one sexy man. I can't say as much about the rest of the band though, they were looking kind of beat. There were people who actually left before the first encore! They came out two more times and played for almost as long as they did before the encores. I have some video and pics but they were taken with my cell phone and kind of suck.

And here is a pic of Matt.

And this is the pic I tried to take of us on night mode.

We had such a fun time at the concert.

Finally on Sunday we went to see the new Batman. Wow was it good. It was very dark and scary. I'm excited to see what they will do next. This has been a pretty good year for movies.

So overall I had a really great weekend!