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Me arriving at the Strawberry Festival — Arriving at the Strawberry Festival

Oh, my! I had such a fabulous time at the Strawberry Festival this year!

The weather was perfection and I got to the festival right before opening time. I mean, I just have to be the one to get first dibs on any pickins I could possibly want to buy before they all get snatched up by anyone else that dares take them! (I’m thuggish like that.)

The mansion in all her glory

Look at that Victorian detail.

And I absolutely LOVE being around this gorgeous Victorian mansion. I love, love, love all things Victorian. So I was a bit overwhelmed, as usual, just being in the vicinity of this stunning creature in all her glory. I love me some beauty!

Now for the fun! There were over 100 tents selling all sorts of things. It was just one big garage sale for all! I lucked out and found these absolutely beautiful heavy glass ‘objets d’art’ for dirt cheap. Score for me! And I didn’t even have to haggle.

Let the negotiations begin!

Crystal glass wares from Strawberry Festival

I got these lovelies for a bargain!

The kettle corn man! Yum!

Strawberry Goodness

Strawberry Shortcake and Strawberry Float

Amazingly, there was another tent across the way selling glass objects that did not look as nice as these and that were of a much lighter weight when I picked them up—for FOUR (4) times the price!! Kick rocks, dude. I don’t think so.

They couldn’t possibly have known what the competition was selling. I got all 3 of my heavy glass beauties for LESS THAN what the other tent was selling for just ONE light-weight glass bowl the same size. Come on now.

Next up, the EATING PART!! My FAVORITE part of the day. The most exciting part of any day! What can I possibly tell you about all the delicious strawberries I saw being served every which way you could possibly want! Naturally, when I can’t decide which food item I want to eat more than another—I tend to get one of each. Big ups to the ladies serving them!

So, if you have nothing else to do today, find out when a festival will be in your town again and make plans to attend and buy all sorts of objects and yummy eatings. No festival anytime soon? Take a tour of a beautiful historic Victorian mansion and transport yourself back in time. Aahhh.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Always window-shop and make mental notes of all 100 tents first BEFORE buying anything. This is how you score big time for cheap. Also, don’t be afraid to eat yourself into strawberry madness.

Sooooooo, yeah, I did eat this entire box of yummy chocolate chip goodness throughout the course of a day. What can I say? It’s what made me happy at the time. I go through different phases where I constantly buy and eat boxes of chocolate chip ice cream until I get sick of it and stop again until the next year. I don’t know where it comes from. It just spikes outta nowhere, I tell you.

Do you think the saturated fat will cling to my arteries at some point? Let’s hope not. I do eat lots of bowls of oatmeal from time-to-time. So I’m hoping that kinda rinses it away. I guess when you think about all the ice cream one person eats over the course of a year, I’m probably doing much less in a shorter period of time is what it amounts to.

Chocolate chip ice cream — Last year, I decided to eat this bad boy straight out of the tub. I didn’t see the point of putting it into a bowl when I was just going to go back for 2nds and 3rds anyway.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, list out all the reasons why you should NOT scarf down an entire box of ice cream by yourself and put it to memory.

That’s all I have to say on the subject.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Read nutrition facts BEFORE eating entire boxes of ice cream or better yet—maybe don’t eat a whole box in a day.

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