We drove up to Palmer yesterday, which is about 40 minutes north of Anchorage to attend the 75th annual Alaska State Fair. It's a bit of a drive, so we camped out in our vehicle Friday night to be there when the fair opened at 10AM on Saturday. The Alaska State Fair is a little bigger than what you would picture a Minnesota county fair to be. There were 4 different streets full of food vendors, shops, rides, and games. There is only one building to house all of their farm exhibits. Although small, we did enjoy our first Alaska State Fair experience. The food was very much fair food like any other fair with the addition of some Alaskan food vendors serving seafood, reindeer, and bison. We saw the famous large vegetables of the Mat-Su Valley. Quick growing vegetables, like cabbage, do very well up here due to their short growing season and the amount of sunlight Alaska has in the summer. The 1st place pumpkin weighed 859 pounds and the 1st place kohlrabi was bigger than my head.
After the fair we seeked out an ice cream shop that I learned about in a magazine called Rochelle's Ice Cream Stop. It's not too often that I see places with my name on it, so we had to stop. They had a unique Alaskan flavored ice cream called Fireweed and Honey so I had to give it a try. It was very good. Apparently you can do a lot with fireweed, like making jellies and jams.
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