Rob's Ramblings, Day 8

This evening (I'm actually writing this in the opening hours of Saturday morning) was a late night, and my plans for this evening changed considerably, but not in a bad way. My plan was to walk around and get my free stuff for the day. Instead, I met up with my former neighbor, Pat, and my mom out there. Pat had just ordered fried livers. I am not sure how much they were, but she shared them with us, and they were pretty good. We were alarmed to find a deep-fried toothpick in the order. The guy at the stand apologized and mumbled something we couldn't understand. From there, we walked down to the midway so Pat could try her hand at the Racer's Edge game. This is a game where you drop the tokens onto the platform and try to push more tokens over the edge. There were blue chips mixed in that could be turned in for prizes. Pat really got into that game! While she was playing, I reached into a slot next to her station, and there were several coins in there that someone had missed! I played some of those tokens, and was successful in pushing more coins off of the platform for me to play. I had the opportunity to play for quite a while for free! Pat got quite a few tokens and blue chips.

After that, we parted ways so Pat and my mom could go and see the dog show, and so I could walk through buildings. I had already seen the dog show and did not feel the need to see it again, so we planned to meet back by Ye Olde Grill at 7:30. This restaurant is directly across the street from the Ye Olde Mill. When we met back there at 7:30, Pat informed us that she was buying us dinner. That was so nice! Ye Olde Grill is a nice place to sit down and have a decent meal. They offer a dinner special of Chicken Fried steak, pot roast, or roasted chicken, with choice of 2 sides, and a biscuit for $12.00. They have a nicely decorated dining area, and they were very nice. Ye Olde Grill also serves grilled lemonade, limeade, and cherry limeade. The lemons, limes, and cherries are grilled, mixed in with lots of brown sugar, regular sugar, and other things that would send a diabetic into a sugar coma, and then served. By the time we were done eating, we were stuffed! We really enjoyed our meal and the atmosphere of the Ye Olde Mill.

From that point, we headed down to see one of the buildings my mom and Pat had missed earlier, but on the way, we noticed that the 8:30 Ron Diamond (comic hypnotist) show was starting. We forewent the building and stayed to watch the show, and it was really good!

After the show, it was back to the Racer's Edge game. Pat won a few more tokens and blue chips. She is saving up a good amount of blue chips to buy some bigger prizes with them.  By the time we were finished, it was about 11:30! We decided that we would call it a night. We were pretty tired.

It was fun to run into Doug, Pam, & Isaac, the Parks clan, Margaret, Dakota, Sarah, Jamison, Trenton, and all of the kiddos from different children's programs and ministries I have the opportunity to serve with. If I saw you and failed to mention you here, I'm sorry. Some days I'm lucky to remember my name, let alone everyone I saw in the space of a day.

Tomorrow will be Mother's day at the fair. I have been out here with her off and on, but we haven't really had a day we could spend together. She'll be at the Oz Gallery from 9-12 at the woodcarving area, carving and answering questions, and chatting with the people that come by. I can't believe there are only 2 days left of the fair. I'm definitely going to miss it.

Thanks for reading, and God bless you!