Saturday, August 12, 2006

Yamhill County Fair

The Yamhill County Fair is pretty small, at least compared to the Sonoma County Fair.

The Good:
The weird animal exhibit. Snakes, a lynx, and a chameleon in a tree. Pretty cool. Everywhere you go in Northern Oregon you'll see two things. A red-kneed Mexican tarantula, and a giant hissing cockroach. They had five or six different tarantulas, though, which was cool. Very thorough.
The chickens. We always like the chickens.
Lots of horses competing in the arena.

The Bad:
There was a small display of award-winning vegetables. Outside, unattended, on blue paper trays was a selection of shriveled vegetables. Of the five winners in 12 categories, there were maybe three families represented.

The weird:
The Sherriffs had a trailer set up with a meth exhibit, showing all the household cleansers, solvents and decongestants that go into making meth at home. It was like a little how-to on cooking speed. "Build your own meth lab!"

Carnivals are just a rip. $4.75 to run up and down some ladders and slide down a slide. Max enjoyed it, though.

Maybe the focus was the rodeo, which we missed.

1 comment:

Angelina said...

I still can't believe the Sheriff would show what ingredients it takes to make meth. Is this why there's such a problem with it here, becuase the Sheriff keeps showing kids how to do it? Maybe they should rethink their campagn. I think it's possible to educated kids about meth without offering inspiration for making the stuff.