Glendale Glitters

Friday night was kick-off to "Arizona's largest holiday light display", Glendale Glitters. It's only a few miles from our house, so we went to take a look. It was a bit crowded but Alex had a good time ... and got a new hat:



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Arizona State Fair

Friday was our more-or-less yearly trek to the Arizona State Fair. Some of the highlights:


You can't make this stuff up -- Mouth Rushmore ... as cows ... carved in butter. Only at a State Fair would you get these kind of gems.


Keeping on the cow theme, my son is trying to milk a plastic cow. I didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't real. City kids these days ... sheesh.


Yes, that is a look of sheer terror on my son's face while going down the slide.


Give me liberty or give me this silly foam crown.

Demolition Derby baby! That's white trash gold! Here's a video of a bit of it. It's a little over 1 MB, so don't try it unless you have broadband. Here's also a vid overview of the fairgrounds from our viewpoint in the stands watching the derby.

Demolition Derby

Fairgrounds
You are at a fair, so you have to have deep-fried something. This year, it was deep-fried cheesecake and a chile relleno corndog ... or as I like to call it, "heart attack on a stick". Yummy.

To try and counteract the redneck swerve we got on Friday night, we went to the Litchfield Park Festival of the Arts on Saturday. This was a mostly foofy art crowd but it was a nice day and we saw some pretty cool paintings that we couldn't afford and ate at a cool local Mexican restaurant, Old Pueblo. They had great fish tacos and chile rellenos.