Yummo Cotton Candy!!

It's fair time again and my friend and I went on our annual trek to see the sights. Not much there, but we enjoyed what little we saw. Along with trying to win a hand carved wooden pin (2X and missed one by 1 number, shucks), we mostly sat and visited with friends, ate some fair food, (not traditional this time, fajitas) and wandered the commercial exhibits and campers. Of course the final purchase of the night was an extra large bag of fresh, right out of the spinner, cotton candy. It always makes me smile and brings back memories of the South Plains Fair in Lubbock. Of waitng around while my parents and 100 others make plans for opening the ACU Hamburger booth (or ACC for most of that time). Of getting out of school early with free fair tickets and going as a family to enjoy the hamburgers, rides and games. Of going to some GREAT country concerts such as Dolly Parton, The Oak Ridge Boys and many, many others that the fair brought in every year. Of getting old enough to go to the fair with a "date". or at least on a group date with a boy you really, really like. Of coming home from college on fair weekends and begging my mother to go with me just so I could go and get me some cotton candy because, unlike today, the fair was the only place you could get this delicious spun sugar and it was a rare treat only gotten once a year. I noticed that the convenience store had some bags of cotton candy for sale this past week and was sorley tempted to purchase some, but I decided to wait until the fair opened and I sure am glad I did.

If you can make it here . . .

Leaving the fairgrounds on Saturday I had to exit by a different road that I was not familiar with. Even though my Garmin was in the car with me, I didn't think I would need it in Midland. I knew that if I could keep traveling north I would eventually come to a road that I knew. So, that is what I did. Traveled north. I drove along, reading the street signs and low and behold!!! Look what I found:



I am famous!! My whole family is famous!! I really wanted to get out and take it down to take home with me, but that is stealing and just wrong, so I turned around, got out the camera and just took a picture. Actually, I took a couple of pictures. The first one I was way too far away and had to move up some more. Then I took another one and decided that I needed to macro zoom to get even closer. Because, you know, I wasn't about to get out of the car. Just roll the window down and click! voila! A street sign of my own. It just made my day to find that sign. Oh, yes, as you can tell with me being here and typing, that I found my way and made it home. (it wasn't hard at all)