Miles from Home - 330
August 28-30
Another fun-filled weekend awaits us, as we are driving to the Minnesota State Fair. The Twin Cities are our home away from home it seems, which is fine by us, as we're beginning to discover the right places to go and people to see here.
Friday morning we are all up by 6:30am. We have a long day of putting smiles on fair-goers faces. Our location is a prime one - situated directly on the north entrance gate. Our gorgeous pizza-making contraption is the first thing guests see. Naturally, we have a line forming immediately to get a slice of the good stuff. One local even tells us that the Minnesota State Fair is the second largest - in scale, and attendance - in the country. Only Texas' is bigger, which I'm sure you've heard before. Others tell us that the fair coordinators are expected to break the 1.5 million attendance mark.
Kevin is an absolute machine outside, giving his spiel over and over again to curious people. Spiel meaning: very informative, enthralling, conversations that he may or may not write about in his memoirs. Many grab a slice and walk over to our neighbors - on the left is BP Gasoline, currently giving away free gas cards. On our right - Dog Obedience School, complete with the crazy agility course that you see on TV. We're going to need a canine mascot at Palermo's when we get back to Wisconsin - preferably an Australian Shepherd. We'll leave it up to the blog readers to name it. Closing time is approaching at this point, and we've stormed through 37 cases. That is not a misprint. The Martha's Cookies provide us with the necessary sugar rush to push on through. Thanks Martha’s!
Saturday, August 29th now, and we're ready for another 12 or 13 crazy hours of work. Mr. Nathaniel Maschke (gentleman, scholar, and all-around good guy) is back to help us out and speak words of wisdom. He's a reserved man who keeps us on track and provides the correct amount of playful banter to keep the day going. People are friendly here, of course. Jake even has some friends from Duluth make the trip to St. Paul to participate in State Fair Shenanigans. I
can't stress how huge this place really is. Some of us try to walk to the south end of the grounds in our allotted break time - it cannot be done. This place is massive, crawling with wall-to-wall Minnesotans. Minnesotans have only one mission - to eat glorious things on a stick. And although we are stickless, we run through another 34 cases today. Success!
Sunday,the last day of the fair for us. We are tired. We are broken. We are running on empty. But we aren't out of Monster Energy drink! The gears keep turning and the belts & pulleys in our brains fire back up around 8 am. A BP volunteer next to us decides to make a musical Palermo's jingle, which gets us smiling. Another weekend of near perfect weather is in the books. Our red & white checkered tables almost always have a long line in front of them. It's great to see. People also sign up for the Summer Sweepstakes, which comes to a close today. 34 cases are sampled again.
A whirlwind of a weekend to say the least. No disappointments though, as the crew's bond is tighter than poly-grip. Although the Summer Tour is over, we still have events on our calendar. We will be traveling to Iowa in 2 days, so we also have that to look forward to. Mark your calendars for October 3rd - we'll be back in the great, great white north to sample delicious pizza pie at the new TCF Bank Stadium - Badgers vs. Gophers.
August 28-30
Another fun-filled weekend awaits us, as we are driving to the Minnesota State Fair. The Twin Cities are our home away from home it seems, which is fine by us, as we're beginning to discover the right places to go and people to see here.
Friday morning we are all up by 6:30am. We have a long day of putting smiles on fair-goers faces. Our location is a prime one - situated directly on the north entrance gate. Our gorgeous pizza-making contraption is the first thing guests see. Naturally, we have a line forming immediately to get a slice of the good stuff. One local even tells us that the Minnesota State Fair is the second largest - in scale, and attendance - in the country. Only Texas' is bigger, which I'm sure you've heard before. Others tell us that the fair coordinators are expected to break the 1.5 million attendance mark.
Kevin is an absolute machine outside, giving his spiel over and over again to curious people. Spiel meaning: very informative, enthralling, conversations that he may or may not write about in his memoirs. Many grab a slice and walk over to our neighbors - on the left is BP Gasoline, currently giving away free gas cards. On our right - Dog Obedience School, complete with the crazy agility course that you see on TV. We're going to need a canine mascot at Palermo's when we get back to Wisconsin - preferably an Australian Shepherd. We'll leave it up to the blog readers to name it. Closing time is approaching at this point, and we've stormed through 37 cases. That is not a misprint. The Martha's Cookies provide us with the necessary sugar rush to push on through. Thanks Martha’s!
Saturday, August 29th now, and we're ready for another 12 or 13 crazy hours of work. Mr. Nathaniel Maschke (gentleman, scholar, and all-around good guy) is back to help us out and speak words of wisdom. He's a reserved man who keeps us on track and provides the correct amount of playful banter to keep the day going. People are friendly here, of course. Jake even has some friends from Duluth make the trip to St. Paul to participate in State Fair Shenanigans. I
can't stress how huge this place really is. Some of us try to walk to the south end of the grounds in our allotted break time - it cannot be done. This place is massive, crawling with wall-to-wall Minnesotans. Minnesotans have only one mission - to eat glorious things on a stick. And although we are stickless, we run through another 34 cases today. Success!Sunday,the last day of the fair for us. We are tired. We are broken. We are running on empty. But we aren't out of Monster Energy drink! The gears keep turning and the belts & pulleys in our brains fire back up around 8 am. A BP volunteer next to us decides to make a musical Palermo's jingle, which gets us smiling. Another weekend of near perfect weather is in the books. Our red & white checkered tables almost always have a long line in front of them. It's great to see. People also sign up for the Summer Sweepstakes, which comes to a close today. 34 cases are sampled again.
A whirlwind of a weekend to say the least. No disappointments though, as the crew's bond is tighter than poly-grip. Although the Summer Tour is over, we still have events on our calendar. We will be traveling to Iowa in 2 days, so we also have that to look forward to. Mark your calendars for October 3rd - we'll be back in the great, great white north to sample delicious pizza pie at the new TCF Bank Stadium - Badgers vs. Gophers.
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