Sunday afternoon the weather improved for a few hours, and Heather and I made our way to Oaks Park for the 2010 Multnomah County Fair.
Unlike the Elko County fair we visited last summer, the Multnomah County Fair features hardly any cowboys or cattle, and no rodeo or horse racing.
Both fairs, however, feature plenty of red necks, funnel cakes, and award winning vegetables.
The enormous carrots below, however, were my favorites. They were very deserving of the blue ribbon.
And check out this amazing flower arrangement – it’s called Kicking Up Your Heels:
The Multnomah County Fair has a few things that the Elko County Fair doesn’t, though, including the Northwest Challenge X-treme Air Dogs Jumping Competition!
Dog jumps into the water from Dave Knows on Vimeo.
And robot soccer!
And chainsaw sculptoring! Heather would not let me get this awesome bench for our living room 
Here are the sculptors in action:
Chainsaw Sculpting at the 2010 Multnomah County Fair from Dave Knows on Vimeo.
Really though, the main draw for us was the animal exhibits, and the fair delivered.
This guy was in the Walk on the Wildside exhibit. He’s a black and white something or other:
I am 38 years old and I only learned the origin of the phrase “pig pile” yesterday:
The ponies all looked bored. Why don’t we say “bored as a pony”?
Nigel the Camel had a lot of energy:
And my favorite part of the entire 2010 Multnomah County Fair? The cute bunny!
Go read Heather’s view of the fair – Multnomah County Fair: Bunnies – We had such a great time, we needed two blog posts to describe it all!
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An automatically generated list of possibly related posts:
- May 29-31: 2010 Multnomah County Fair
- May 28-31: Fireworks, Rose Fest, County Fair, History Pub and the Timbers
- October 9-12: Wordstock Book Fair and the Friends of the Multnomah County Library 36th Annual Fall Book Sale
- Oregon State Fair 2010
- August 15-16: Multnomah Days, Hawthorne Street Fair, the final 2009 Sunday Parkway and a lot more
We went to the fair today and saw the dogs jump, rode ponies (okay, I didn’t personally), and saw that chainsaw carved horse bench. We had the same thought about the bench, only it was “We could put this in front of our house.” And turn them into unicorns. (I need an expense account.)
mike vogel – Dang, I hadn’t thought of that. If I had I might have got more traction with Heather on the idea of buying it.
No.
I’m not getting why those carrots won a prize??
Heather – Unicorns!?
XUP – I observed that many of the categories had very few entries. The “Tiny Carrot” category, I believe, had one entry. Hence, blue ribbon!
I would kill for that horse bench.
Hmm, maybe if the horse bench were to show up on a wedding registry? I’m pretty sure there’s a No Returns policy for something like that. Mwah-ha-ha.
ElkoSteve – It would fit right in where you live!
mike – We were not planning to have a wedding registry, but maybe we’ll have to reconsider . . .