North Carolina State Fair!

Today me and Mr. Chiavaroli went to the North Carolina State Fair with some friends. It was a pretty adorable time. It was also Chiv's first time at the fair! Don't worry; the fair was very gentle.


I showed that candy apple who was boss (hint: I was boss!).


Chiv helped.


I might have been excited about eating candy apples.


Um, I was going to take a picture of me eating the few things that I could eat at the fair (though I did get some good ideas -- Chiv told me about pumpkin-flavored funnel cake. I can veganize funnel cake and make it taste like pumpkins, can't I? I thought so, too). Then I realized that I could eat more than I thought I could. I could eat candy apples, could get roasted corn plain without any butter on it (and they had a million vegan seasonings to choose from), and then I found a pita place that made huge falafel sandwiches and advertised a "party in every pita." And then I rode rides until I felt like I was going to throw up.


And then we looked at preserves.


And then we looked at all of the animals and I wanted to kidnap all of them and open a farm where everyone just chills out and looks adorable.


Being able to pet cows was pretty awesome and not something that I get to do everyday, but it was still pretty depressing because people are jerks.

After we went home, I consulted the internets to see if maybe there was some sort of animal sanctuary around the Chapel Hill / Durham / Raleigh that could use volunteers. I found out about Pig Pals of NC, which is a group that rehabilitates and shelters miniature pigs that have been neglected or abandoned, and I shot them an e-mail to see if they needed anyone to help out.


In brighter news... unicorns.