Today Emily and I joined my oldest brother's family on a visit to Bloomer, Wisconsin for the county fair.
The Bloomer county fair had everything you might expect in a local carnival, rickety rides included.
While the blinking lights of the Tilt-a-Whirl and the Zipper lured in riders less prone to motion sickness (or who had not just scarfed down a heaping portion of fried cheese curds), the shorter crowd seemed to prefer slipping their legs into a potato sack and speeding down the Super Slide.
Well...most seemed to enjoy it.
Of course, the main draw of the night was the demolition derby.A total of 72 cars lined up to smash and be smashed in various forms of team and individual competitions.
Fans were treated with an array of crashes, smoke, fire, crumpled bumpers and twisted metal. The luckiest observers (those in the front rows) even walked away with mud-splattered shirts courtesy of some wild, wheel-spinning fish-tails.
In all, it was a perfect night at the county fair that left me feeling, if nothing else, a little more road-conscious on the drive home.
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