Get ready for the 2009 N.C. State Fair! We just couldn't wait until the fair starts on Oct. 15 to begin reporting on its annual 10-days of statewide competitions, thrilling rides and everything fried on a stick.
In this blog, we'll touch base with some of you who are already baking up that blue ribbon cake or polishing the hooves on your champion steer. We'll also keep you up-to-date on what's going to be new and different about the fair this year.
Help us have a seat
One of the great guilty pleasures of the State Fair is eating an artery-clogging funnel cake or fried candy bar. But there are far too few places to sit while you eat.
The assembly-line restaurants have seats, but naturally they're reserved for patrons. Benches in the main food-service areas would help. You could never install enough of them to seat every eater — and if you tried, you'd block too much pedestrian flow. But a few here and there couldn't hurt.
There's room, too, for bleachers in front of the Expo Center.
Failing that, nature offers help in some spots. It's not awful, after all, to sit on the roots of a sturdy oak as you polish off a funnel cake coated in powdered sugar, cinnamon, or chocolate.
The trees don't mind. The ants don't, either.
