State fair 07: milkshakes and horses and ears oh m-eye
We went to the state fair this past weekend with my parents. It was a lot of fun. For anyone who doesn’t usually go I would recommend it for sure. There are tons of places to eat real fair food and lots of neat things to see from free stuff, to giant pumpkin launchers, to draft horses and wedding cakes. We were have a great time eating seeing everything. Jason always likes to see the Draft horses because they are huge. Their legs are generally taller than my head-unreal. We had just finished walking through the barn when I went into a ridiculous sneezing fit- it was funny. Then I noticed that my eye started itching a ton and felt bad. About 5 minutes later my mom was like, “your eye is really red and swollen.” At about that time my voice became raspy and slightly constricted. Well at this point we figured I was having a whacked out allergic reaction. We decided to go see the wedding cakes and get and elephant ear and spit. Well about 1/2 way to the other tent my eye became very swollen and it became apparent that I needed to get some benadryl on board before things got out of hand. I was laughing the whole time, and saying I was fine, of course. We couldn’t find the first aid tent so my dad flagged down a State Trooper on a golf cart and he radioed the first aid people. At this point I am laughing continually because this swollen eye thing has gotten out of hand to involve a State cop. Well the people come, and listen to my lungs and give me an ice pack (which of course I was too prideful to walk around with that on my face) and some meds. I told the first aid guy that it was no big deal and that it was funny. His response in true hard core first aid responder form was, “this is not funny, this could be very serious.” I was like, “right.” Anyway, we finally made it to see the wedding cakes, and the bonus part was to get the best elephant ear ever. So there was a little excitement at the state fair this year. Turns out something in the horse barn makes my eye swell shut. Good to know.
Night scene
My swollen eye