San Diego County Fair

I have always loved fairs since childhood. Rides, food, shopping, people-watching, games, photobooths and local animals, arts and gardening! This is my second time to the San Diego County fair and it was fun like last year. This year's theme was "Race to the fair". Our first stop was at the California Cruising Exhibit coz VJ loves cars. Saw some interesting old celebrity cars and the nascar race cars. 

The Nascar car

Coming to food, this is one place I make up my mind to try some junk food without second thoughts. There is the famous Charlies chicken whose menu alone will make u smile serving deep fried kool aid, deep fried oreos, deep fried burgers, chicken kabobs and deep fried frog legs and more! And then there is this heart attack cafe that has deep fried everything! I said to myself, "this is America" where it's a race to be fat and unhealthy :P This time, we tried the chicken kabobs from Charlies Chicken, deep fried zucchini curls, the twisted tater-chips on a stick and the apple tower.

Chicken kabobs on the grill 

Chicken Charlies crazy options

The famous funnel cakes!

Just abt to taste the twisted tator chips

Thoroughly enjoying the apple tower!

I loved the apple tower the best. There were sliced green apples in a tall cup with warm caramel drizzled over the top and oozing deep into the cup covering all the apple slices and some crushed peanuts sprinkled on top. It was so yumm!

We then went for the sky ride and the giant wheel being our favorites in the fair. The sky ride takes you from inland to the other part of the fair and you can see the crowd from top…good thing is you can escape from walking among the crowds. The giant wheel is a romantic ride which gives a spectacular view of the ocean. We usually just prefer to watch all other rides that are heights of madness! VJ and I played some dart games and shooting the balloon games and won some soft toys. Was surprised to see the angry birds stuffed toys which is not a favorite of mine.

View from the giant wheel

Won this Cheetah on the dart game :)

Made a quick visit to the livestock show to see pink pigs and the llamas. Was excited to see the cute llamas for the first time ever. Also enjoyed watching the gems and mineral show. If you are planning to visit the fair, here are some things to know,

• It is the 75th year of the fair this year.
• Get discounted tickets ($11) at Albertsons.
• Park for free at the Horse Park less than a mile away from the fairgrounds, with free shuttles on double decker buses.
• Check out some junk food at the Chicken Charlies and the apple tower.
• Check out the sky ride  and the giant wheel.
• Play some basketball and dart games to win cool stuff toys.
• Take a camera and take loads of pictures and make good memories with ur loved ones.

Will come back again!