The County Fair

Kevin and I are big into Utah County and State Fairs. We enjoy having a night out on the town, rubbing shoulders with Utah’s finest. 3 weeks ago Kevin, Valerie, Baby James, and I went to the Davis County Fair for the first time. The free fair was worth every penny and more. We saw many cute animals, nice artwork, scary reptiles, played in a sandbox, and won a pie eating contest. “What!” you say. Yes not only did we enter a pie-eating contest but we won, I guess I shouldn’t say we won, but the Kevin won.

Here is how the story went down. As I was lingering behind the group, after checking out the local goats, looking at cheap sunglasses I overheard a woman announce that the pie-eating contest was going to begin in 10 minutes and that they needed more individuals to sign up. I dropped the sunglasses and went sprinting up to Kevin and encouraged him to enter, however, Kevin flatly refused to participate. So my sister Valerie and I went to check it out. It turned out that you entered by placing your name on a ticket and dropping it into a box, then they pulled only 6 names from the box and those lucky people participated in the contest. Kevin found this to be less threatening and of course thought like most people that he would not be called and allowed us to enter his name. So Valerie entered us all into the contest. So the contest begins and the officiator pulls the first name, low and behold he calls “Chelsey Christensen”, yes me! As I walk up to the stage I turn back and give Kevin a glare as he is rolling in laughter. Then they call the next name, then another name, then another, then to my pleasant surprise they call “Kevin Christensen”.

My heart leaped with joy at how funny this situation was and then despair as I realized that my husband was going to participate in this activity making it a real competition and I better do my best at eating the pie or I would be deemed a loser by Kevin for the rest of my life. Then the officiator said go, and I couldn’t see, taste, or smell anything but chocolate cream pie for a full 60 sec. For those of you who might have participated in such an event you know how painful speed eating is. I won’t go into the details, but I don’t recommend it! Finally “Stop” was heard and I lift my head and realized that I didn’t even make a dent in the pie and I have it all over my face, then I turned to see Kevin’s pie. Not only was the chocolate filling gone, but the crust was half eaten. I then saw his ginning chocolate covered face as he was deemed the winner. Hope you enjoy the photos!