Photos: Nebraska State Fair #11

Zinnia

Oops

We were heading back to the Jeep, which was quite a long jaunt, planning to go to Applebee's for supper before returning to collect my quilts and the other items I'd entered.  The man at the ticket gate asked us if we'd seen the Percherons.  We had not.  He, seeming to feel that we would lose a large portion of our lives should we not see these big draft horses, immediately offered to take us to their barn in his golf cart.

We accepted, and away we went.

Percheron -- huge, but so gentle.

In Applebee's parking lot, we heard the honking of Canada geese, looked up -- and found a flock of eleven geese coming right at us!  

"Cover your head!" exclaimed Larry, but I was busy grabbing for my camera.

When I lifted it to my face, the geese debated urgently and in some alarm amongst themselves before swooping quickly upwards, scrambling their V formation and giving us much more clearance than they had earlier planned.

They were soon back in proper flight pattern and conversing normally again.

Back at the fairgrounds, we had to wait for a stream of vehicles towing stock trailers, filled with the animals they were taking back home again, to exit.

We then pulled in, drove through the vacated lots right up to the doors of the buildings where my things were, collected them, and headed home, making a stop in Central City for a Royal New York Cheesecake Blizzard (for Larry) and a Summer Berry Cheesecake Blizzard (for me).

And so ended our very nice day at the Nebraska State Fair.