The weather was the best, everything else pretty much the same

EXCUSE ME!
Brand new at the Fair, this 20-hour old lamb in an intimate moment with her  new mother.

Kathleen, alone on
the Sky Ride.

Every year we walk in the side door of the Creative Activities building, examine the baked goods display, and Kathleen announces: "Next year I am going to enter my date cookies." We never do, of course, but that's just part of our tradition.

Kare 11's new sports guy, Ryan Shaver
We tried to get an autograph from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, but
it was a book signing, and Kathleen didn't bring along
her finished copy of "The Senator Next Door."

The more things change, the more they stay the same at the Minnesota State Fair. The St. Paul girl never misses, Stan skips it occasionally. So when we say today was the most fantastic State Fair weather day ever, we know what we're talking about. Never got over 72, low humidity and a nice breeze to mix the scent of Martha's fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies with eau de horse barn.


We went to all our familiar haunts, the art barn, newspaper museum, robot competition, machinery hill, grandstand, birth center, KARE11, and so on. We were going to get a mini- My Pilllow, but the lines were too long and besides, we forgot our coupon.
After gingerly stepping through the horse barn, we looked in the new fair museum and reminisced about the old days at the fair. Then out the next exit onto the Pronto Express bus, just in time for rush hour. Kathleen may go again tomorrow, though it's too late to enter the date cookies.
Stan has other priorities.

It's just the first day at the Fair, many more lambs to come. City girls just can't stay out of the barns.