Virginia State Fair....

The Virginia State fair is at a new location this year. It's at Meadows event park next to Kings Dominion in Caroline county. They have tons of room there. Jessica, asked me to go along with her to the fair today. She was competing in a celebrity cook-off with her morning show partner, Geoff. I said yes!! Sharon also decided to come along with us. Sharon picked me up this morning and we came to the station, then Jessica drove us to the fair.

There were 3 teams. Jessica and Geoff, then a guy and gal from Radio one, and then a girl team. One of who writes cook books and the other a pastry chef. Totally not fair but whatever. :) Each team had a skillet at their station and a basket of food. They had 25 min. to make whatever from the basket. Jess sorted thru the basket and Geoff grabbed spices and knives.

The food consisted of rice, peppers, onion, apple, payday candy bar, chicken, potato, bottle of water, and green beans.

Jess and Geoff got 2nd place!!!!!!!!!! Woo-hoo!!!!!!!!! Of course, the winners were the cook book writer and pastry chef but the cook book writer did cut her finger while she was cutting an apple. :)


Here is the plate of food Jess and Geoff made. It was good!! :)

Jess showing off the skillet and how messy it looked.

After the competition we walked around the fair. Here's a picture of some turkey legs.



Sheepies!!!!!!!! Jess and I are obsessed with Sheepies. So, we spent a lot of time looking at them. Some of them are wearing blankets to keep them clean for their show competitions.


How cute is he?

This little guy is a messy eater. We found a station set up with wool all over it from some of the sheep being sheared. We also found some free samples of sheepy fur. I took some for my sheepy room. :)
The largest pumpkin was 1,057 pounds. It's the one on the left. Look at all those huge pumpkins!!! How can they get them to grow that big? Miracle Grow?

Little duckies!! :)

Little baby piggy sleepin. He had 11 little brothers and sisters. All of them woke up and started feeding while we were there. He was the last one to get up. It was soooo cute! :)


There were lots of quilts! This one quilt I thought was very unusual. They used boxes from girl scout cookies. How cool is that??

Funnel cake sign!

So.......Before we went into the competition we walked around for a few min. Sharon got a lemonade, and I got a Grape Hawaiian Shaved ice. We came to this cinnamon roll stand and gazed at them. They looked soooooo good. The vendor took a piece off and gave it to Jess. She was like OMG!! :) So as we went to walk away the vendor said "hold on" He got a box, put a roll in it, put extra icing on it and gave us 3 forks. Then Jess told him who we were and that she would talk about him on the radio tomorrow morning. We all ate the cinnamon roll. OMG, it was the best one I've ever had. It was delicious!! :)

Such a fun day!! :)