• BriGuyHogie •: Strawberry Fair Delight

Liz and I set out on an adventure to Plant City, Florida to explore the wondrous event known as the Florida Strawberry Festival in observance of 75 spectacular years!

I knew we made it to the right place when I saw this sign.

We have our tickets and are ready to go!

Pig racing was on the top of our list of what to see, so we checked it out and watched the warm up show with kids hopping on piggy balloons.

I was impressed with the amount of piggy balloons they had on display.....

.....but I suppose the real pigs were just as fun to watch.

The rookie pigs are ready to race!

Round 1!!!!!

The first race was fun to watch, but now it's time to step it up with the big boys!

The crowd is ready for another race!

Round 2!!!!!

I was mistaken when I thought the big boys were coming out to race. The next round of pigs were quite a sight to see!

The behemoth pigs are ready to go...this ought to be good.

Round 3!!!!!

Me and Liz both agreed the pig racing was definitely worth checking out.

I had no idea Liz had such an enthusiastic fascination for hot Wisconsin cheese.....

.....but she had no idea I felt the same way towards strawberry totem poles.

We took some time to look around at the jumbo glittery fruit exhibit.

The artist for this piece was excited about 75 amazing years celebrating the wonders of strawberries.

Liz was so excited she accidentally slapped the strawberry display in the face!

Take 2. Hands down...except for the strawberry.

Liz was quick to point out that the only time you'll ever see camo drapes mixed with pastel colors would be at a fair.

The Geico gecko took some time out from his busy schedule of saving people 15% or more off their car insurance to take a picture with us.

By the middle of the day I took a break in this swinging chair apparatus, which was a bad idea because I didn't want to get up. Liz had to pry me out and I ended up kicking and screaming for a good half hour.

Liz tried to cheer me up with a little bit of "tractor time," but that just wasn't doing it for me.

Then we stumbled upon a vendor selling a few fine choices of deep fried Pepsi and deep fried butter.....

.....we decided on the delicacy of the deep fried Pepsi.

I wasn't cranky anymore!

We continued to walk around and I bumped into my old crony Dr. VegDome. We go way back in the day of servin' up the other food groups.

Liz had to get another tractor time in for the day!

I decided to go with destruction time.

Liz had never been on the giant spinning swing ride...so we went on it!

It was a nice twirl in the sky.

That's no UFO...that's the twirlin' ride!

We found ourselves up in the sky in a double ferris wheel.....

.....with a lovely view of the fairness happening below.

I was astonished and confused all at the same time while riding in this crazy contraption!

I was also very thankful that the other ferris wheel above us did not fall and crush my skull.

Liz definitely had a lot more fun on this ride while I tried to refrain myself from shrieking in terror.

We made it back to the ground safely! I was very thankful.

We went on one last ride and it was Drop Zone! There's nothing more exciting than falling from the sky in a ride that was built from a truck!

The rides were fun but we sat down and took a break for a while.....

.....and we had the perfect scenic view of cheesy carnival prizes.

It was almost time to go, but before we do we had to stop and get some strawberry shortcake.

I was ready to tackle this!

Before.....

.....after.

Neither of us could finish what we took, but it was still a great dessert!

We happened to spot an enormous fake strawberry shortcake and Liz did not approve of this at all. What good can this possibly bring to society if it cannot be eaten?