We got our act together and headed down to the Texas State Fair during its last week. We met Tyler at school and walked over to the new DART station and took a "train ride" to the fair. A few hours later we happily took a ride back. Our tickets were free so we felt no need to make a day out of it.
The absolutely essential picture in front of Big Tex.
The classic trains at the feet of Big Tex. Always a hit with Max.
A picture of Tessa loving her ice cream cone (whose expensive price is cleverly hidden in the form of tokens) and Max seeing something very disturbing.
Max proved to be a very inept driver of the bumper cars. He was the kid you laugh at over in the corner bumping into the wall over and over. He got few more rides than we planned thanks to all the kind people who handed us tickets as they were leaving. We must have looked pretty destitute or something. 
The always popular trip to the petting zoo. We went during the final days of the fair and these poor animals had been fed by probably 10,000 eager children. Most of them could care less about the food Max and Tessa so willingly offered. No worries, the guy gave us our feed for free. Maybe I had a sign on my forehead that said "HOMELESS, PLEASE HELP". Or maybe it's just the big hearts of Texans. 
Our artery clogging item this year was a fried Snickers. Not so great...
You can see by Max's eyes that the combination of fat and sugar has overloaded his brain.
We also shared some Texas Tater Twisters (or some name like that). We first sampled these in Luckenbach, Texas and I, unfortunately, fell in love. I went a little overboard on the delicious seasoning and ruined them a bit, but they were still edible. To balance out the weeks worth of sodium we had just consumed (thanks to my overzealous seasoning) we finished off the fair with some fresh lemonade. There was about an inch of sugar at the bottom of the cup when we were finished, but I guess we can count it as healthy since that was an inch of sugar that we didn't consume.Next year I'm sure we'll make this Texas pilgrimage again. We already have our food choices picked out. It will include a steroid enhanced giant turkey leg...we hear they are amazing.
