This was the closest I've come to missing Fair since I started going. With all of my family's issues right now, I didn't feel comfortable going into the woods to prance around in a tutu until my mom finally said that they were fine so the week before Fair, it was a go!
Honestly, I think that not having put a whole lot of effort into my Fair clothes took a lot of the pressure off of me and just allowed me to relax. This was by far the most relaxing Fair for me, despite how it started.
On Wednesday going down, we had not one but two flat tires. I wish I could say that breaking down on the way was new but it wasn't. This led to several new things but I'm going to go with the positive and say that my new thing was riding a bike around camp out to our camp gate. This was the first year I've brought my bike to fair but it won't be the last.
On Thursday, my new thing was trying the eggroll booth at Fair. Those are some tasty and significantly sized eggrolls. I also spent my first day walking around with Nikki which was awesome. It took us three years to figure out we were the campiest in our camp and made a great costumed duo.
On Friday, my new thing was escorting a guy named Brandon back to his camp. Normally, the escorting part is a headache but Brandon and his friend were awesome and funny. With my skimpy outfits, a couple of security checkpoints we went through lightly questioned whether I was qualified as an escort and I said that I was. ;)
On Saturday, I relaxed. Like I said, Nikki and I made a great team with our campy clothing but I wanted to take one afternoon without tutus or short shorts and just photograph fair. We walked around a bit and I met a lot of Nikki's friends and took a lot of photos for Nikki. I also got to work gate with Alesha for the first time which was fun.
On Sunday, my new thing was getting a chair massage. Since I was so relaxed yesterday, I put some things on my schedule today; I wanted to see Jason Webley and Chris Chandler, I was signed up for a free chair massage at Security Tower, and I wanted an eggplant parmesan sandwich and I managed to do it all.
On Monday, I took the photos at the top with my timer on my camera and they're probably my favorite fair photos ever. It's the reason that I love fair and I keep going back. The great energy that I get off of these fabulous folks is everything I needed to fill me up for another year. I love my life but the day-to-day monotony of work and all can really get to me and it's good to let go every now and then. Oh, my new thing for the day though was resting a bag of ice in my crotch cuz damn it was hot.
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