Anyway, I pretty much ate my way through the festival. Allow me to show you...
I was told that I had to try the "chocolate dip't bacon." Was I scared? YES. But I'll try just about anything once. So we hunted down the bacon stand and ate some chocolate dip't bacon. Y'all...it was good. Like really good. I felt like I needed an Alka Seltzer 20 minutes later, but hey, totally worth it.
After walking through a sea of cowboy boots & camo jackets, I also indulged on "a rib on a stick" and a chocolate covered strawberry. And guess what? I'm going back to the festival again tonight with Adam. Where I will definitely be partaking in some strawberry shortcake. It's a "build your own" style shortcake, and last year's was delicious. Then I will probably fall into a festival food induced coma. Oh well...it's all in good fun. Good thing the festival only comes once a year or I would be obese. We're also going to listen to Trace Adkins perform, too. From outside the stadium, because we're too cheap to pay more to step 3 feet inside the stands, when you can hear the music outside of them anyway.
After scarfing all of that food down, Kathleen and I wanted to go on the "Sky Swing." It probably would've been a better idea if it wasn't 40-something degrees and extremely windy. But we weren't about to skip out on riding it after paying $5 for our tickets to get on it. It was worth it, though...we saw the whole festival (and most of Plant City) from up there! I love finding traditional things that specific cities do. The sense of pride that people display for where they live just warms my heart. It's stuff like this that brings a city to life and gives it character.
I'm gonna go workout now. For 3 hours. Just kidding. But seriously, I have something healthy to share with y'all tomorrow to make up for this ;)
Oh and one more thing: for your viewing pleasure...me eating some chocolate bacon. Hand fed by Kathleen. You're welcome.
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