A Visit To The Strawberry Festival

We decided to have some fun at the Strawberry Festival in Plant City to see what it is all about. Turns out to be something of a county fair atmosphere with 4H animals shows, food, pictures, paintings and sewing judging and anything related to strwaberries. They have strawberry shortcake everywhere, and every kind of 'carny' style food you can think of.

This Raggedy Ann doll is actually 100% cake, everything is edible and sweet. Obviously, this one was registered in the professional category.

Here are a few more cakes in the professional category.

Next, Katrina and her friend Andrea try on a few rides. Oh, did I mention Dean and Brenda (the newlyweds) came along? They decided to hit the heavy duty rides with the girls too. They make up the 4 sets of legs on the left side of this 'Big Ben'ride.

Next followed a quick turn on the Himalaya-style ride, then...

Then the girls decided to take a spin on the Round-Up while Dean & Brenda went off to experience a different ride. You can see the girls in grey and black T-shirts at the top of the 'wheel'.

Had enough? Nope! Time for a 'spin' on a ride we had named as kids "The Regurgitator". The legs hanging out of the red section on the lower-right are the girls.

A quick turn on a ride called the 'Zipper'...

And the girls needed a bit of a rest. (I have been sworn to secrecy as to why the color of their T-shirts have changed).

So we sat at a table for a while then walked over to the racing stands to watch...

Robinson's Racing Pigs.

As you can see, the sun was going down, so we decided we had a busy day (and an empty wallet) but we all had a bunch of fun and it was time to go home.