State Fair of Texas, Fair Park

Wow, there is no better park than Fair Park when the State Fair is on!  I spent a couple of hours there on Friday while Terry worked and found this awesome work of art in the Women's Museum where Mundo Latino is going on.  This is the Dallas/Fort Worth skyline combined into one work of art. It contains 37,700 LEGO bricks and took more than 80 hours to complete. It is awesome.

This exhibit also had a tribute to Texas Fallen Soldiers  - Defenders of Freedom - on the 2nd floor.  Pictures of sons and daughters who lost their lives in foreign lands as a result of the current conflicts were on display.  The top floor has a photo exhibit of Little Mexico, an area of Dallas that no longer exists, but is well documented with photos by St. Ann's Alumni Association. The bottom floor featured hispanic music and dancing, sale of traditional Mexican clothes, jewelry, accessories, and a small cafe with mexican treats, as well as this lego masterpiece.  One of my favorite areas of the fair in part because it was away from the crowds, a lovely oasis.

The Chevy Main Stage area received a new green floor.  There is no seating as in chairs, so in the past we've had to stand on concrete (or sit if we were really tired).  The green floor covering is an improvement. There were more people there but they were trying to stay in the sparse shade provided by the building which housed the sound technicians. 

Craig Parker the resident Elvis impersonator and his most passionate groupie. 

Shows on Hall of State Steps

Texas Sports Legend Exhibit, Hall of State

Terry Helping the OU Crowd.  Mostly they wanted to know where to find the Fried Food!

The rest of the Information Group: Debbie, Craig and Mary P. surrounded by record breaking crowds.  I just made that up. I don't know if this crowd broke records, but I know it was Very Difficult to try to move anywhere at a fast rate of speed. There were so many of us in the booth I thought there wouldn't be enough customers to keep us busy. Boy was I wrong. Terry and Craig worked in the bowl during the OU game, trying to direct customers to shorter lines. I hear they were on tv, but unfortunately not until it was too late to record them.

Butter Horses in the Creative Arts Building

Farmer Mike's Pumpkin Creation in the Greenhouse.  

New Creatures Daily.

CANStruction Exhibit...made entirely of cans of food.  The theme of this year's fair is Deep in the Heart of Texas, so we saw a lot of flags, hearts, the alamo and Willie Nelson.  The full cans of food will be donated to the Dallas and Ft. Worth food banks.

Willie wrapped in the Flag

The Lagoon.  

Those interesting little towers are actually tree roots, but they look like a little colony of creatures staring at the lagoon, the fairgoers and the new floating bridge spanning the lagoon enabling visitors to get quickly to CANstruction  from the Cotton Bowl Plaza.

Kids Boardwalk

The Capital in Cans