State Fair and Office Walking

AWESOME State Fair weather today!
I took part of the day off to visit the State Fair of Texas and we walked around the State Fair from 10-2 and then I started my office walking day at 3pm.
I have already walked 99 minutes, 1.89 miles and burned calories 244, so I started my series over and I've done another 78 minutes, 1.52 miles and burned calories 210.

My hips are a lot less sore today and I already feel "stronger". I can't explain that strength after only 3 days of walking, but I guess the easiest way is that I don't feel like "grabbing a chair" everywhere I go. There were days that my mental attitude was that if I was in another town and not worried about being seen, I would have grabbed one of those motorized chairs at Target!!! I already don't feel like that. I walked around the state fair all morning and never once started to look around for a bench.
So, back to the state fair....here's our review:

1. Food:

• Fried Chocolate is a MUST, but you MUST share it because it is insanely rich. We bought one, but had 6 forks dipping into it and that was just right.
• Fried PB&J - didn't realize it had banana in there too - not so much our favorite.
• Fried cookie dough - way too sweet for us.
  
• Watch the soft drink prices...some popular places, like the fried chocolate place would charge 8 tickets, but right next door, the drinks would be 6 tickets. We were sad to say we missed that.
• Fletcher's corndog - I had the jalepeno one - very good, but at that point, after having bites of this and that fried food, I thought I was going to hurl. I was needing a salad at this stage in the day.

1. Rides

• Windsurf 10 tix- very good for 12+ - flips you over and teases you with water
  
• Starship 10 tix- favorite from 7-13 - centrifigal force kind of ride
• Big Swings 10 tix- nice, easy going, even for folks that don't like rides
• Storm 10 tix -little rough for the 7 year olds, but the 13 year olds liked it - lots of spinning
• Love Bugs 10 tix - favorite from 7-13 - if you are on the outside, you are squished like a bug, that must be where they get the name from
• Many more that I forgot the names of.....there were none that my kids said they didn't like.

1. Activities/Events

• Loved the dog show
• Best petting zoo we've ever been to, but INSANELY crowded. Like scary crowded. The Giraffe cornered our girls in a little area and then stole someone's map and started eating it. People started to crush in to see all of the excitement. That was not so fun. But the cool part is that they pet a giraffe, ostrich, pig, alpaca, camel, cow, goats, etc...they had a blast!

I am still walking...typing at full pace, doing conference calls, IM's, texting on my cell, yelling at the dog to stop barking, editing my Vision, Strategy and Execution for FY'11.

Bring it...
Oh - and now I'm walking at 1.2 all day...whereas Thur I started at .=0.6
;-)
LB