Texas State Fair
October 17, 2009
Every fall, OU (my alma mater) plays UT in football here in Dallas as part of the state fair. My good friends Julie (a fellow OU alum) and Ryan came up from Houston to visit us for the weekend. Though we didn’t go to the game itself, we went down to the fair during it. We got to the fair just before kickoff and managed to watch parts of the game on televisions as we wandered around the fair. We visited a number of exhibits and participated in various fair activities. We had dollar hot dogs for lunch, plus we tried a number of the fried foods for which the State Fair of Texas is famous: I had fried Oreos, my all-time favorite fair food. We left the fair at halftime — with OU leading 6-3 — and made it home in time to see Texas take the lead early in the fourth quarter to win the game by a field goal. Ryan and Julie stayed through Saturday night and left early Sunday morning: it was fun to have them in town for a visit.
