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2010 Multnomah County Fair

May 31, 2010 by Dave 8 Comments

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Multnomah County Fair 2010Sunday 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.

Award Winning Veggies

The enormous carrots below, however, were my favorites. They were very deserving of the blue ribbon.

Tiny Carrots

And check out this amazing flower arrangement – it’s called Kicking Up Your Heels:

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!

Robot Soccer

And chainsaw sculptoring! Heather would not let me get this awesome bench for our living room 🙁

Awesome Bench

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:

B and W something

I am 38 years old and I only learned the origin of the phrase “pig pile” yesterday:

Napping Piggies

The ponies all looked bored. Why don’t we say “bored as a pony”?

Ponies

Nigel the Camel had a lot of energy:

Nigel the Camel

And my favorite part of the entire 2010 Multnomah County Fair? The cute bunny!

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!

Filed Under: Festivals and Fairs, Portland, Review, Weekend

Comments

  1. mike vogel says

    May 31, 2010 at 10:09 pm

    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.)

  2. Dave says

    June 1, 2010 at 6:03 am

    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.

  3. Heather says

    June 1, 2010 at 6:54 am

    No.

  4. XUP says

    June 1, 2010 at 7:06 am

    I’m not getting why those carrots won a prize??

  5. Dave says

    June 1, 2010 at 8:53 am

    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!

  6. ElkoSteve says

    June 1, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    I would kill for that horse bench.

  7. mike says

    June 2, 2010 at 9:50 am

    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.

  8. Dave says

    June 2, 2010 at 10:48 am

    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 . . .

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