Have fun!

Rides and animals? I,too, thought fairs were about the food! Don't forget the candy apples! Yum - those are my favorite.

What!? No funnel cakes?
Don't forget cotton candy!
It's soooo much fun if you wait to have that on the ride home! Hey, it's not that hard to get out of your hair...do you have vinyl seats?

...pushing, sweating throngs, stirring up dust, content to trample any who dare come between them and the ferris wheel (or the elephant ear stand, for that matter). Guys with Radio Shack PA sytems that squeal intermittently, hawking revolutionary cleaning products that will remove even the most fervent juice or coffee stains from various carpet samples (as seen on TV), but which (I swear) we bought last year, and never used. Rap and hip-hop groups (or, even worse-cringe-Britney Spears) hollering untelligibly over some noise that vaguely resembles music, all to the beat of a screaming crowd of tweens and teens (who, poor things, don't yet know any better)...

Nah...you guys go; have a good time. Not for me!

Does that make me un-American?

I wish we could be going with you! The girls would be so thrilled - the Woodliefs and a fair.

What of the funnel cake? Won't someone please think of the funnel cake?!

OK. Obviously I'm terribly ignorant, but what are elephant ears, food-wise? (Maybe we don't have them down here in Georgia.)

Julia,

Here's a recipe, and here is a discussion of the difference between elephant ears and funnel cakes (with pictures!)

I grew up in Hutch---the chicken & noodles--- oh my, they used to be great. I haven't been for years but growing up the double ferris wheel was amazing. Somehow the fair was never the same when that ride failed to show up.