Alaska State Fair and Hatcher Pass

Next stop was the Alaska State Fair.  Where we walked around and tried all sorts of food.

They tasted like the ocean!

Fried cheese curds 

Reindeer dog

Delicious popcorn

Mexican hot chocolate

And I also took some non-food pics...

I hate when this happens...

This little piggy fell down...

And then it fell down again.. 

Pretty flowers.

The rides we didn't ride...

Me and Luke doing what we do best...being silly!

We wanted to see the cabbage weigh-off but it wasn't until later in the day, so we took a field trip to Hatcher Pass/Independence Mine in the middle of our fair adventure.

Me and Lauren

The colors are really changing up there.  It's so pretty!

And then we went back to the fair to see the ginormous cabbage weigh-off.

Cabbage fairies...

Let the games begin! Those boy scouts lifted a lot of heavy cabbages! 

The winner!  And the new world record cabbage!  138.25 lb.

I couldn't believe how big the cabbages were!  The second place winner (at 126 lb.) was grown by the guy that had the previous world record (at 127.something lb.)...we could tell he was pretty upset that he didn't win and that his record got beat by 11 lb!

What a unique adventure!