Sometimes, SoCal is awesome

So we went to the LA County Fair again today (Sunday). This time, Lorelei was left with the in-laws, since they wanted to take her to a play my brother-in-law is in and they're watching her tomorrow as we got to Disneyland for Amanda's birthday.

It was full of win. Last time, watching Lorelei fascinated with the piggies and the chickens and all that was full of win too, just a different kind of win.

I won $126.40 by picking a trifecta on the first horse race (of three) that we watched. We love the ponies, but they cost money and it's harder to do a racing day with a baby/toddler. But I've never won more than I think $10 at a time. I nearly hit another trifecta on our last race, but the horse I needed to finish third, in a photo finish, ended up in fourth. Man...

Flush with cash, we splurged on a giant cherry ICEE and a deep-fried Snickers (drool...) and a fancy $4 cupcake. I've wanted to try one of those for a while, but I just can't justify $4 on a damn cupcake. I mean, it's a freakin' cupcake! But being up $116.40 on the day made it a whole lot easier to do so. I'll probably grab the Triple Chocolate cupcake after I finish writing this...it's sitting in the fridge, waiting for me...

But perhaps the best part of the day was the lucha libre! (I'll have to Bluetooth over the pictures from the phone later in the week) As part of Hispanic Heritage Day, in addition to the usual stuff like mariachi bands, they had the local lucha libre promotion doing three matchs at a time over I think six time slots. It was freakin' awesome. You can get up close, the heels interact directly with you, the main guys will stay afterwards for photos and autographs. In some ways, it was utterly cheesetastic. But that also made it full of win. I mean, seeing the heel (I can't remember his name) interacting back and forth with a round middle-aged Mexican women, and she's giving as good as she's getting, was totally cool. It was wrestling at it's finest in a lot of ways, without all the glitz and glamour of the WWE. I don't know how many times I got the crowd going by myself, booing or clapping. Both Amanda and I agree, we definitely have to attend more lucha libres shows in the future.

All told, a really wonderful day with my wife. It was really great. I miss the little chunkerbutt, but it was a great Mommy-Daddy day.