What Goes With Tye Die? .... Camouflage of course!

September 9, 2008

This weekend I went to the Utah State Fair with my Aunt and two of her friends. It was a lot more fun then I thought it would be. First of all, her friends a married couple are seriously hilarious! They are refereed to as Mr and Mrs Craig. They are both school teachers in Davis County and they refer to each other as such, their teacher names. In fact they call my Aunt "Miss Burrows" , because she is also a school teacher/ counselor. When I was in school I always imagined that the teachers did not have first names, nor did they use them in real life. My childhood belief was hereby confirmed today with the hanging out of three public school teachers. So if you are wondering or had been wondering what school teachers refer to one another as in their off time, then you may now know "yes they go by their teacher names in real life."

Mr Craig was hilarious! He was completely obnoxious, almost to the point of being rude. It was really really funny. First of all he was seriously hung over from the night before. Second of all, he hadn't been to a state fair in 25 years, I know this because he kept on mentioning it.

Mrs. Craig was a little more quite, but you could tell she was really wild. She was really sarcastic and said the funniest things.

The thing that we most enjoyed was the fashion display. My aunt, Miss Burrows, had told me that the array of fashion choices were out of control, but I had no idea. These people had mullets, some dressed as cowboys, big American Flag t-shirts, over-alls, fanny packs, some dressed as Gothic as possible looking as if they hated the fair (then why be there?) There were even people dressed as pioneers. But the gold medal of them all was......

"What goes with tye-dye?" My aunt asked me out of nowhere then paused. "Camouflage."

I looked over and saw a man wearing a tye-dye shirt and camo pants. It was really amazing. IT made us laugh, and then funny part is we kept on seeing him everywhere and it would make us smile again.

Another attraction that caught our eye was the freak show. We payed $3 each to get in to this trailer. There was a cow with two noses, a sheep with 5 legs and then a whole bunch of stuff in jars, like pickled pigs that were born with birth deformities. At the end of the freak show there was a girl (the human tri pod) that only had one leg. We were all shocked, but didn't want to stare. It is impolite to stare at disabled people right? But this was a freak show we were supposed to stare, which made it that much worse. We all felt bad for her. Imagine being an attraction in a freak show. What a horrible job.

Then my camera got stolen, I put it down in the bathroom and left it there. I returned one minute after this and it was gone. Mr. Craig kept saying things like "That would make a good picture" and would point to something cool..."Oh too bad you don't have a camera" It was so fucked up it was funny. This happened all night long.

And let us not forget the mechanical bull I rode and stayed on for the entire time. I still have the bruises to prove it.

Overall I would say that the State Fair was pretty awesome. Too bad about my camera.