Here are my people. The great unwashed, glistening with a thin sheen of grease from foods on a stick, the refuse to get out of your way and don’t even notice when their umbrellas come dangerously close to poking out the eye of the freakishly tall girl masses. Yes, my people.

As you can see today was our annual trip to the Minnesota State Fair. Every year the Sister Club and fam go en masse to the great Minnesota get together. Where we go do the same things we’ve done for the last 30 years. These things mostly involve making fun of fanny packs, people with matching outfits, and anyone else who happens to catch our attention. We also eat– corndogs, Luigi fries, Juanita’s fajitas, walleye cakes, scottish eggs, gyros, brownies, sweet martha’s cookies, bbq ribs, jerk chicken, turkey legs, cheeseburgers, french fries, anything that comes on a stick, and then for lunch we have the same stuff. For dinner we have TUMS.

The highlights of this year included tornado alley. This was a little exhibit at KSTP, where you got to walk through a simulated tornado. It was pretty rad, but the best part of it was Jaycie standing in the middle of it, screaming “I’m Dorothy, I’m Dorothy.”

This incident of incredible cuteness came second only to my beloved Max’s shouting as we left the DNR building where he touched an actual real, live snake (much to my snake/worm hating horror) “WE MUST SAVE THE WILDERNESS! WE MUST SAVE THE WILDERNESS!”

After seeing the Minnesota wild life exhibits (where he was totally disappointed that the animals were dead), naming most of the animals (look Aunt Jodi, it’s a loon, look Aunt Jodi it’s a badger, oh and there’s a fox, and oh there’s a nighttime otter [or something like that]. Look Jaycie, there’s your favorite a lynx), spending $3.50 at the DNR wishing well [“My wish is gonna come true, I can tell”], hugging Smokey the Bear, and seeing how our rivers are being polluted, max has decided that we really must save the wilderness.

Og course, this was my all time favorite:

***YOUR PERSONALITY ANALYSIS BY TELEVAC***
You set very high goals for yourself.
You are ambitious and have many secret desires.
You are a good judge of people.
The old proverb, “Look before you leap” expresses your attitude.
You enjoy planning for the future.
You enjoy helping others but will not give advice unless asked.
Your absentmindedness is a concern for those you live and work with.
You can be trusted, for your judgments are mature.
You sacrifice small luxuries now to invest in your future.
Family and friends play an important role in your life.
You have learned to cope with many situations.
You do and say just the right thing at the right moment.