Texas : Texas State Fair

Gonna be a long long entry....bear with it!!

It's Sunday and the last day of the Texas State Fair (TSF)!! Since we're in Texas, there's no reason to miss it! Met at 12 noon and drove to the railway station to take their DART ( something like our MRT). Bought an all day pass at $4.50 which gave us unlimited rides and a 2 dollar off the TSF admission. The ride took around 40 mins with ~ 10 stops. Freezing cold weather today. Yesterday was much nicer.

Reached the Pearl station and took a shuttle there. The fee is included in our ride pass. The TSF tickets cost $13 but with the $2 off we are required to pay $11. However, when I gave the cashier $20, she gave me back 2x$5 and 4x$1. So i only paid $6 in the end.



The first event that greeted us was a scottish performance. Wonder why it's here in a TSF.



The 1st building we saw was the Women's Museum. Nothing much...mostly on Maryiln Manroe. And some small 'Did you know?' stuff. Took a round in and walked out. Oh there was this impersonator of Maryiln and we had a photo taken with her.

The Women's Museum

After that, we walked around the fair...visiting some small exhibits and looking around. It's pretty much like a scaled up pasar malam. They sell lots of food but it's all about the same stall. You see like the same kinda store selling same things all over the place. There were some performances and stuff like that such as animal races. We went to catch the pig race at 4:15pm.

Watch this! It's the nicest vid i took!


After the race we walked around and viewed some livestocks. There was this mega pig...super huge! There were plenty of rides and stuff...I was thinking in Singapore no body would go sit in those Chua Chu Kang small pasar malam rides...coz the atmosphere is just not there. Look at the nice ferris wheel and merry go round!

Relive your childhood dreams.


Basically we spent the rest of the day walking around and taking photos. Lots of small little games to play and stuff like that. At night we watch a small parade of floats ...not very magnificent..but still worth a video capture.



After the parade of floats we walked around abit more before heading back. Its getting cold already..think it was around 830pm. Wonder how the locals take it. Coz we see kids in t-shirts. While we are all wrapped up!! Okie that's all, remember to view all the 40+ photos here!!