A study in the bizarre

Usually for Labor Day weekend we go camping at our favorite place, Rucker Lake. We have years and years of memories of sunburns, fish caught, canoeing, family fights, umpteen hours of Cribbage, Uno and Phase 10.

This year Byron hasn't been feeling well and our camping girl up and got married, so it just wasn't our year. At a loss for what Americana thing to do this year, we decided to make the trek to Sacramento to the California State Fair. It's been years and years since we went;
now I remember why.



First of all, there are a lot of really odd people at the fair. Like this young man, we saw him and his mask everywhere. It was weird.



This picture does not do this woman justice. She was about 4'9" and weighed maybe 70 lbs, with lead in her pockets and soaking wet. I was worried she would collapse and be trampled.



This lady was doing her best Shrek impression, notice how, just like the big green guy, her neck sits right smack on her shoulders. Poor thing.



My sneaky photographer son snapped this picture of a woman for whom time has stood still. She had the most perfectly feathered mullet I have even seen. And she's happy about it.



You'd think that in California you'd be able to get a better caliber of celebrity. This is Richard Kiel, better known as Jaws. He is really, really, really big in real life. And he's not exactly handsome either. Pictures were $20, Jeff snuck this one in and ran.



Only at a fair would you find a 40 foot chicken. This one won Best of Show for the county exhibits. Who thinks of this stuff?



Embarrassed to admit it, but we are the proud owners of not one, but two, SHAMWOWS!!!!




Oh Fried foods! 54 different varities of fried foods. Oreos, twinkies, dill pickles, sweet potato sticks, snickers, triple fried fries, elephant ears...a gazillion calories and one heart attack just waiting for you.



Yep, this is us eating the block of fries.



I feel for this poor woman selling bath towels She had to wear this get up for 16 days. I wonder if she sold any? Certainly not to any member of the Relief Society in the 80's, we all made them in Homemaking meeting.



This is Raul the Texas bull. His horns are 120 inches from tip to tip. That's 10 feet!!! How does he hold up his head?



This llama was cute until it tried to spit on us. We're fast though.



Finally! Jeff has always wanted to be the big cheese. (Cheesey, I know.)



These two guys are about the only things at the fair I would look twice at!!!

And finally....



I was afraid of the ultimate answer, so I didn't answer the questions.
My curiosity is now killing me.