Woodstock Fair

Woodstock Fair
Labor Day Weekend 2012

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Attended: Sunday Morning
Parking: $5, in someone’s yard nearby
Distance to Fair: 5 minute walk
Cost: $12 for each adult, kids under 10 are free!
Something Unique: I’d never seen “Australian fries” before
Overall rating: Fair

The Woodstock Fair is one of the bigger ones in the state – and has the honor of being held over Labor Day weekend every year. It has a long (and interesting) history, which you can read all about here.

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Damian’s got the map. Hoang’s got that dang green bag (now retired) that has appeared in more CTMQ posts than I have. Let’s go!

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Okay. That’s a little weird…

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… So are “wax hands.” I looked it up. You dip your hands in wax and then get wax hands. Who does this? Let’s go look at the rides

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Um, no. Look closely at the top left. A worker is fixing this ride. Nothing to see here.

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It was a right lovely day in Woodstock, with plenty of tractors to enjoy

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But some tractors seemed to be enjoying us. Creepy.

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But not as creepy as life-sized pioneer women dolls. Aahahhhahhhh!

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There are lots of cool old cars at the Woodstock Fair

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Some are Triumphs of engineering…

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Others, not so much

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You’re not having a good time until you see an old lawnmower

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Or a giant Batman Villain saw

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What could these two be looking at?

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Oh, just some baritone lady

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Connecticut’s fairs attract people from as far away as … let’s say… Texas?

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There is a museum here at the Brunn Barn complex.

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Not part of the museum, but supposedly the world’s largest gun safe. Which is stupid.

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And speaking of World’s Best, yup, the sundaes made it to Woodstock too. We didn’t have any, but let’s look at some of the fair food we dared to try.

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German Fries!

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Everyone enjoyed their greasy German Fries. I decided to step it up a notch though.

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Everyone’s had French fries, we had had German Fries… Now it was time for Australian fries…

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One of the worst things I’ve ever attempted to eat in my life. Just inhuman. Some potato deep fried in some deep fried batter and grease.

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I’ve had heartburn twice in my life. One after downing two Mike’s Hard Lemonades in like 6 minutes before a wedding and almost immediately after eating some of these Australian fries. Just a horrorshow.

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Speaking of horrorshow, welcome to ‘Merica! MMmmmm, “Twinking eating!”

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What are these two clowns looking at now?

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Yeah, ok. That looks pretty cool.

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Goats.

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Giant pumpkin

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Cute kid

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Required photo-op

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Is this empowering or infuriating?

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That is all.

The Woodstock Fair
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