We FINAL-friggin'-LY made it out to the SD Fair at the Del Mar Fairgrounds! We were sitting on unlimited entry tickets for about a week. And it was good. Yea, it was good. It would've been better if I was able to see Steel Pulse play, but I was out of town that weekend. That was weekend all the car drama popped off. It was fun walking around and checking out all the vendors. We stopped off at one of the dart games to see if I could win Akilah a stuffed animal. I bought 7 darts for $10. The first 5 darts I threw hit their marks. The next one literally grazed off of a balloon and the last was a clear miss. Then the barker/carnie dude starts in...well I'll give you 2 more on me. I threw those and went 2 for 2. Then he said something else about larger animals and handed me 2 more darts. 2 more balloons popped in quick succession. By this point the other 2 carnie people were watching to see what we were doing. And that's when lil Mr. Carnie Scrote was going on about how if I pay $10 more dollars I could win the big baby Stewie...I looked at Kiki and she was like, naw that's ok...she'll take the little turtle (she later named 'Squirt'). Then the scrote was like, when you owe $10 for the darts you threw. WTF. Dude, you handed me those darts, just gimme the turtle. 'Naw, well dude you see, the first 2 after your 7 were on me, then the 2 after that were $10.' Yea, that makes no sense Sir Scrote. So in the end he was all, you (me!) weren't listening to me and no one listens to me...so here take your turtle. There was no way I was paying for darts he just handed to me!
Here's a little secret: I have pretty disturbingly accurate hand-eye coordination. If I am looking at something or some target, I can pretty much hit it. The balloons were only 3 or 4 feet away and it was fairly easy to do. There were a couple of ballons I popped that were alone by themselves that I hit dead center. This little skill of mine is limited to small objects in my hand that don't have to tumble to stick. Meaning, if I throw a knife, I can make it hit, but as long as the distance for the tumble isn't too far. If it's an object that I am comfortable with and use a lot, say my trusty phillips screwdriver, I can throw it at a box and sink it to the handle at a range of about 10 feet or so. This is how I sometimes killed time waiting for time consuming software updates to finish. haha!
In addition to the turtle, Kiki got herself an airbrushed tee with the a sun/moon design with her name across the front. We also got down on some fried goodness: zuchinni, onions and chicken. Before we left we snagged a bag of fresh kettle corn - oh my effin goodness! I also got her to try a deep fried twinkie...yea she's a convert now. It's NOT the kinda thing you have regularly...but hell it was good. My stomach will be worked tonight. Hopefully, the stomach acid will be kept to a minimum.
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