OC Fair 2009: A Day In Photos

Finally got my photos from yesterday on the computer so I thought I'd share a batch of them.  Enjoy!

This is the first thing I saw when I got out of the car.  I'd never ride the damn thing [I hate Ferris Wheels!] but it's a pretty imposing sight when you first walk in.

"And they called it... puppy looooooove"

The sheep seemed absolutely terrified when someone got in their pen, all herding up in a pile like this.  That or someone lost their keys and everyone was pitching in.  One or the other.

"By day, I'm just your normal everyday farm animal.  But by night..."

"I AM EL DANDY!  FAMED LUCHADOR!"

Poor guy.  I never really thought sheep and goats and the like were personable animals but these guys really seemed like they were almost like pets.

"What?!  The Dodgers are letting Jason Schmidt pitch again?!"

All together now... "Awwwwww!"

The rabbits had it the worst of any animals I saw all day.  Some of those cages weren't any bigger than a shoebox.  

This was the cutest little guy.  He kept sniffing the bars when I moved the camera closer so I got some really cool closeups.  Damn bars get in the way though.

A moment before this shot, the little guy tried to stand on the other one to reach the feed bag but fell flat. I guess this was good enough for him though.

I swear, for the first few seconds, I thought this pig was dead (swine flu!).  All the pigs just looked exhausted, sprawled out and sleeping.  Don't worry - I didn't lay on the ground next to the pig for this one but the camera did get lowered quite a bit for it.

A Dodger pig!  AY!  Save the Lasorda jokes, jackass!

Speaking of pigs... here's the pulled pork sandwich I had for lunch.  I didn't even realize I ate pulled pork after looking at pigs until I just wrote that.  Egads, that's awkward.  Oh, and large beer = $9.  Painful but oh-so-nice on a warm day.

Giant sand sculpture of Weird Al's head.  No, we didn't go the 3-D showing of Al's Brain and yes, this is a very close second for most disturbing photo I've seen this week.  First place of course goes to the Twilight Moms.

I thought this was a cool shot.  I need to play with the coloring a little bit when I get some time.  Oh, and those gondolas look like the most potentially deadly things I've seen in ages.

Ah yes.  Fair food.  The quickest way to a stomachache.  I successfully avoided the plethora of fried foods that sabotage all fair trips.  Last year, we ate corn dogs and some horrific Australian ranch fries thing where they cut big slabs of potato, deep fry them, and serve them with ranch and liquid cheese.  The mere sight of those this year made me feel sick all over again.  My mom thought the Deep Fried Avocados might not be bad.  I couldn't bear the thought of eating anything from this "menu."

Of course, since I had a photo on exhibit in the Visual Arts area, that was the main reason we were attending this year.  I knew I hadn't won anything but I still wanted to see it on display and check out some of the others.  I felt weird taking photos of other people's photos - although there were some fantastic pictures and anyone who goes to the Fair should spend plenty of time checking them out - so I snapped a few of pieces of artwork that I liked.

And of course, I had no qualms about taking a photo of my photo.  I'm still pretty proud of it even though there were no less than 3 peacock photos within a fifteen foot radius of each other including one that looked almost identical.  

Thank you, thank you.  Hold your applause.  No, no, really.  Okay, fine.  Anyone who wants to buy a print of it, let me know!  I'm a not-so-starving, non-college student who could really use the money!

When rides collide!  Well, not literally but at a Fair, would you be surprised?  God damn carnies!

And lastly, the award for Worst Sounding Fair Food goes to...

Ugh.

We had a fun time in our few hours there but we were very glad to be heading home as the crowds got larger as the day went on.

Besides, we got in a game of the BSG board game last night to boot so that's well worth cutting a Fair day short, you know?