State Fair
Oct. 14th, 2004 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rickvsWent to the Texas State Fair over the weekend, and had a pretty good time. If you find yourself at the bird show, do try to sit near front row center -- they have several birds that do flyovers from various points (including the top of the ferris wheel) to a trainer's hand, and I got my hair literally parted a couple of times. They have a singing parrot, a raven who'll carry small items to and from audience members, and a peregrine falcon (one of the fastest critters in the world, these can do over two hundred miles per hour in a dive. By comparison, I figure a garden snail released from the top of the same ferris wheel would only be doing a paltry 80 mph upon reaching the ground).
The Chinese acrobats were pretty spiffy, too. I was especially impressed by the guy who balanced himself on a wooden plank, which was in turn rolling back and forth on a cylinder the size of a coffee can. He had little metal bowls balanced in a stack on his head, and after setting a row of them on the far end of his plank, he'd flip them up and catch them on the stack -- up to four at a time, already nested together as they landed! I don't think any of these acrobats was older than fifteen, and the youngest looked about ten.
Might buy tickets for next year, and actually ride the ferris wheel myself :>
The Chinese acrobats were pretty spiffy, too. I was especially impressed by the guy who balanced himself on a wooden plank, which was in turn rolling back and forth on a cylinder the size of a coffee can. He had little metal bowls balanced in a stack on his head, and after setting a row of them on the far end of his plank, he'd flip them up and catch them on the stack -- up to four at a time, already nested together as they landed! I don't think any of these acrobats was older than fifteen, and the youngest looked about ten.
Might buy tickets for next year, and actually ride the ferris wheel myself :>
