I have been meaning to post pictures of our trip to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines in August. It is suppose to be one of the nation's best state fairs (I don't really have many to compare it to, but we had fun). The amount and size of the livestock was pretty impressive.
Here are pictures of Tori in front of a huge bull (the pictures don't do it justice) and below is her in front of some pigs. She kept saying that the pigs were taking "binky naps" :). It was also amazing to see how much some of the prize winning animals were sold for - some for over $20,000!
I think our favorite part of the fair (besides the deep-fried snickers bar) was the ride in the spinning strawberry. Tori absolutely loved it and even tried to turn us around faster with the wheel that was inside the strawberry.
Another big part of the state fair are the butter sculptures. They had a life-size cow made out of butter and in honor of the 7th book coming out this summer they also had a butter Harry Potter and some other things from the Harry Potter books made out of butter. We had a blast, but as you can tell from the pictures it was one of the hottest and most humid days of the year. After a few hours we were very happy to get back into the car with A/C.
