The Minnesota Great Get Together

Every year, one of our highlights is visiting the MN State Fair. We love the food, the rides, the people watching, the special attraction, and the animals. Every year we try to check out some of the old and some of the new. This year we definitely got lots of new. For food, we enjoyed our old standbys like the cheese curds, french fries, nitro ice cream, corn on the cob, and all you can drink milk. One of our new favorites was the Turkey sandwich. We will take a pass in the future on the flavored corn dogs and the nitro popcorn.

Some of our new activities included the butterfly house, the very first state fair ride (Ye Old Mill), trailer horse races, the Newspaper museum, the ShenaniGuns Comedy Wild West Show, and the Luminarium Exxpolis! We also visited our old standbys like music at the Heritage Square and Leine's Stages as well as all the fun carnival rides!



Catching butterflies at the Butterfly House


Mom doing the chicken dance at the Wild West show


Checking out the cool new luminaries




The ride selection at the state fair are getting scarier and scarier


After the state fair, we were also fortunate to check out Canyon's saxophone teacher with this band, Prior Avenue, at a cool Blues House in St. Paul. A cool show and great inspiration for a young musician!