Peanut Festival

Last weekend we went with some friends to check out the National Peanut Festival.  I don't remember why we didn't go last year, but I thought we needed to attend before we moved back to Missouri.  It was basically like a fair with peanuts everywhere.  We decided to go on Saturday since it was military night so our tickets were discounted but also because that was the night of the demolition derby.  I didn't really know what a demolition derby was before last week.  It's quite a country experience.  Basically it's bumper cars in real cars.  The arena was packed and the people got really into it.  It was funny.  Here is one of the rounds (sorry I can't edit it down a little shorter).  Rules: the last car moving and hitting wins, if you can't move for 60 seconds you're out, no crashing into the driver's side door.

Demolition Derby Video

The entire thing took about an hour.  At some point during that hour I realized I hadn't dressed properly for the night.  I hadn't really been outside at night for a few nights and didn't pay attention to the forecast where I would have found that the low was something in the 30s.  Dressed only in jeans and a hoodie, I was frozen!  One of the vendors was taking advantage of the cold and under dressed because right outside the arena was a stand selling hot chocolate for $2.  Not a terrible price until you walked down a ways and saw you could get twice the size for the same price. 

We were all hungry and headed to the food area to see what we could find.  All the guys decided to get turkey legs.  I still don't see what's so good about gnawing on a giant turkey leg.  It would have been a good picture of the night, but at this point I wasn't taking my hands out of my pockets for anything but fried Oreos!  That is probably the highlight of my night! :) 

At this point the others in our group were going to go ride some rides.  I was already frozen and knew that spinning around on a ride was only going to make me colder so I chickened out. Matt doesn't really do rides so we decided to head home. 

That was the highlight of the week.  Matt is going strong with gunnery and work is crazy right now for me.  I work late just about every night.  I do have new pictures of the house though!!  Look for those soon.

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