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Fair Pics
I know it has taken me longer then usual to post, not having high speed internet at home is a bigger hinderance then I thought. I know I am spoiled. I had my Bradley interview today and it went well, now I am in Chicago and tomorrow I fly back to the West Coast. I wanted to get these fair pics out soon, so here they are.
So here is the deal, I went to the Oregon Country fair last Saturday (see earlier post). I was surprised to find the fair was really cool. It was not overly political like I thought it would be, it was just a big happy hippie fest of people being "free" or whatever they were being. I won't write a lot here, just make notes on the pictures to describe what happened. There are some "questionable" photos so please use discretion when viewing. I do not want to censor my own photos... I need to "express" myself. Okay enough hippie talk, here goes...
The entrance was filled with weird people and of course... a Welcome sign. | 
At the entrance I got confused and thought it was costume required... but it was costume optional. |
Like anywhere in Oregon bands set up at each corner or open space, with their own hippie ontourage. | 
Amoung all the veggie booths I had to look and look for meat. Two times now Marty's (Owner) Peruvian food booth saved me at Eugene events. |
Gypsy and fairy life was in the air, booths, costumes, everything! | 
Lots of the people in costume mocked mainstream culture. There was a group of people dressed in all white mocking the tennis life... Muffy shall we play a match after tea? |
Family Nudist Park... not that a nudist park is not shocking enough... but one for the entire family? | 
"What will Bush do Next?" Options on the wheel included illegal invasions, deforesting for oil, and a few other top hippie agenda items. |
No hippie nation is complete without a drum circle and crazy dancing. | 
Bands... bands... bands. Everywhere you looked there was a band asking for money. |
Surprise! Another band... | 
This band had home made intruments. |
This guy was telling people to live like native americans... he made a fire with two sticks, but he had a metal hammer in his belt amoung other metal manufactured tools. Yeah real native like there Mister. | 
Nirvana Tubes: you hold this tube to your ear and hear what the trees do. Hello... put any long tube with a curve on it and you get a funny sound. Maybe some one has never been to the ocean and picked up a shell? |
Kilts with cargo pockets were all rage at the fair this year, and also parrots and pirates. | 
This huge chess set was cool. |
I am betting this guy is a stock broker and she is the manager of a Doctors Office... this is their weekend outfit. | 
Wings of any type were very much in style. I thought about getting Novali a pair... but these were only made in sizes for adults. |
Lots of young girls with old guys... | 
"The Devil is Cool!"... ah... and they wonder why regular people don't like them? |
Big Asian dragon, that was very cool. | 
The rest of the dragon... |
His sign said, "The Emperor Wears no Clothes." (he had George Bush mask on) | 
Topless fairies and mermaids everywhere. |
They had a huge disk of ice out there. | 
You were supposed to touch this one spot, and by the end of the day there would be a hole there. Cool. |
Mines and performers all over the place... | 
Another band... with a guy that played the spoons... now that is talent. |
Got to have the silver lady. | 
Crazy costumes and stilts. |
The entrance had some cool big "art" and of course tons of bike people rode there... i mean since gas is evil. | 
Bush doing the peace sign, shirt says, "Bet You'll Vote This Time Hipppie." I had to get it. |
So that was the fair adventure... wow that was a long post. See why it took so long for me to complete. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
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