Carnival

I haven't had a chance to be on in a couple of days, because we are in Michigan this weekend. My mom had a high school get together to go to so we came up, spent some time with Grammie, and then went to the gathering. Turned out that the gathering was a beer tent at an annual carnival that none of us knew about. So here we are, at a carnival, with no cash, and having to find parking a couple blocks away because the only available parking close to the carnival cost $3 to use.

Believe it or not, it wasn't bad. Granted we couldn't go on any rides, but Dawn's (one of mom's old high school friends) husband was super nice and gave me and Briana some money so we could get something to eat. We were in awe that there was a big sign for deep fried oreos, and were totally going to get some, but once we got to the cart, we saw they had fried EVERYTHING! Deep fried oreos, deep fried oatmeal pies (those little debbie oatmeal sandwich cookie things), deep fried milky way, deep fried snickers, and elephant ears. We ended up deciding on a deep fried snickers bar. This thing is probably one of the BEST desserts I've ever tasted! They take a snickers bar, put it on a stick, coat it like a corn dog, but with the pastry batter for elephant ears and funnel cakes, and then deep fry it. When it comes out, they put it in a carton, drizzle chocolate sauce on it and shake powdered sugar on top. Then they stick a fork in it and hand it over. Oh my goodness, this thing was SOOO good! Not only was the chocolate from the bar melted, but the nougat had melted too, so that it was almost like a nougat custard with the caramel and chocolate and peanuts. You HAVE to eat the thing with the fork, or it would get everywhere.We also got a large cup of that carnival freshly made lemonade, in a big plastic cup that we got to keep. And I almost decided to get a bucket of chili cheese fries. I held off though, like a good girl... and had a small garden salad and cottage cheese with peaches when we got back to Grammie's.

Mom hung out with her old high school buddies, and we (Briana, the baby, and I) walked around the carnival a few times. There were a bunch of rides, two of which caught our attention especially. They were a spaceship, and a hang gliding ride. They also had a mechanical bull, and a rock climbing wall. Oh! and the best thing of all was this one attraction: GIANT HAMSTER BALLS! You know those plastic balls you buy for hamsters or guinea pigs or whatever to be able to run around the house in?? They had giant human sized ones floating on water! It looked so awesome!!!! I so wish I could have tried it out! :P

I did get to try my hand at ski-ball. I wouldn't have even spent the money, but if you scored 180 or more then you could have your choice of prize. I REALLY wanted to try to win the brian banana. If you are familiar with the show Family Guy, then you understand. The dog (brian) is in a banana costume. It's known for him dancing to "peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time, peanutbutterjelly peanutbutterjelly, peanutbutterjellywithabaseballbat" lol. Well they had this in a stuffed version and I wanted it, but sadly, I couldn't score past 100. I am pretty confident that I would have gotten it after a max of 10 times, but that would've been $10 and I didn't want to do that and frankly I couldn't afford it.

Anyways, overall we had a good time, and now we're hanging out and probably going to bed soon and we'll be heading out to go back to Ohio in the morning.