Semester Happenings: Potato Land

Wow, apparently I'm quite the slacker when it comes to blogging and journal writing. Sooooo much has been happening that I haven't recorded! But, you'll be happy to know that I do have pictures for a lot of the big stuff, so it should be a fun update.

September was the month school started again, and also marked the annual East Idaho State Fair! I love fairs because they're packed full of crazy-good and fattening foods and tons of interesting people. We went down twice and definitely had our share of both and had a great time. The first night we found the most amazing thing...The Idaho Potato Museum!! My life was complete after this moment...okay so not really, and the museum was closed so the guys climbed on the HUGE potato for a fun picture.

Then we headed for the real fair and a BMX dirt-bike trick show. I haven't ever been into dirt bikes and everything they do with them, but this show was pretty awesome. There were backflips, full-extensions and even "captain" tricks pulled time after time. Their final trick was jumping a snowmobile on dirt, and doing a backflip with the snowmobile....turns out he didn't make the full rotation and the machine landed on him on the ramp. The whole place went completely silent! It was so scary but he ended up walking off, painfully. Check out the video to see it.

After the show we got some funnel cakes, which I'd never tried before. Shocking, I know. Everyone else was shocked too, but it turned out neither Jake or Scott had either, so we all got a fabulous taste of the fried goodness. And it was so good! The next time I got it with fruit though and would totally recommend the fruit. We were a little crazy excited, can ya tell?

We had fun looking at the animals, especially the HUGE horses for Bekah, and trying on some fun hats. What do you think? :)