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Nebraska State Fair Day 7

1. Nitro Ice Cream. The ice cream is cold and creamy, taste similar to custard but better. It is located in the exhibition building.

2. The Tiger Show. Check out 7 tigers putting on a show and you can stop by and see them in their cage all day long.

3. The Girl Scouts have free samples of their cookies in the commercial 4-H building.

4. Want a state fair souvenir, T-shirt, sweatshirt or something else? Then be sure and stop by the official State Fair Store.

5. My favorite marching band today was Bruining-Davenport they did an awesome job marching and an even better job with playing their songs. They bought a lot of life to the fair this morning and got my attention.

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Ricky and Lucy’s Country Greenhouse

The other day I was in Sidney, Nebraska and I visited Ricky and Lucy’s Country Greenhouse that is just north of town about 7 miles. It is not the greenhouse that I was thinking of that would just be a big clear tent with plants, it was more than that. The place has trees, flowers, schrubs, herbs and spices growing all around inside a greenhouse and outside. It’s pretty and peaceful so if you have lots of time on your hands you can sit on one of their benches and just enjoy time outside. Lucy and Ricky’s has great landscape including a waterfall and they even make and sell pottery. The best part of the trip is that they make spices and pastas that you purchase to take home. I purchased a pack of lemon peppered fettuccine and sweet potato fettuccine. If I lived in the area the place could be a new hangout of mine on cool spring and fall days just to sit outside and read a book.

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Nebraska State Fair Day 6

1. The Grow Nebraska Store is set up in the exhibition building so fair attendees can stop by and purchase some made from Nebraska items.

2. Check out over a thousand of 4-H exhibits in the commercial building.

3. A great treat to have at the fair is Dippin’ Dots. If you have never had it then you are missing out.

4. Nebraska Public Power District has a power station where you can learn all about electricity and safety of being around electricity. They also have demonstrations that kids will be amazed by what they learn.

5. The Gatling Brothers put on two shows today as part of being “Older Nebraskans Day at the Fair.”

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Nebraska State Fair Day 5

Today I was not at the fair. It was my day off so I traveled to a few different places in Nebraska. Be on the look out for blogs on those places as soon as I get them written up in the next week!

Thanks to all my fans who continue to read my blog and I am excited to keep providing more information on places in Nebraska.

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Nebraska State Fair Day 4

1. The Nebraska Wheat Board was serving up chocolate chip cookies today and they were delicious as always like each year.

2. iCan the showbot. iCan is a robot that rolls around the state fair talking to people and playing music. iCan is representing Napa Auto Parts, so if you are at the fair and see iCan be sure to go up to him and say hi.

3. If you wan a real experience with fair food then you should defintely eat food from Topper Connessions stands.

4. Sand Castle carving, check out the tent by the commercial exhibit buildings to see professional guys carving sculptures out of sand.

5. See baby pigs, sheep, cows, chickens in the birthing pavilion. University of Nebraska-Lincoln vet students are on site to answer any an all questions about the baby animals.

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Nebraska State Fair Day 3

1. Take a ride on a combine, whether you want to test ride or just ride one for fun, Case IH provides everyone the chance to ride a combine for free.
2. See some Sea Lions perform. The sea lions come all the way from California and if you want to you can get a picture of one them kissing you on the cheek.
3. The Slush Factory where you can get a slushy in a really cute cup. You can choose from a variety of flavors but my two favorites are lemonade and orange.
4. Nebraska Beekeepers Association. You can learn all about and see some actual live bees.

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5. Play trivia with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture. Test your knowledge and see how much you know about the agriculture in Nebraska. Their booth is in the Exhibition building.

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Nebraska State Fair Day 2

1. The Nebraska Wheat Board gives out free samples of cinnamon rolls that made with wheat. They are extremely delicious!
2. RFDTV set a guinness record today with having over 1,000 tractors in a parade. Great job and thanks to an old classmate of mine Kelli who works for RFDTV for the t-shirt and hat!
3. Case International Harvester is doing a hat swap so I swapped two hats and got a Case IH hat and a New Holland hat! I am sure my grandpa will like these.
4. I had one of my favorite treats from the fair and that is a chocolate nut sundae on a stick!
5. The Kearney Catholic High School marching band was my favorite band of choice from today. Their drumline’s cadence was awesome and I liked the little jig that he rest of the band did along to the cadence.

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Nebraska State Fair Day 1

1. The Wilber-Clatonia Alumni Band did a fantastic job playing in the opening day parade.

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2. I rode the tram for $3 just one way, it was nice to see a view of the fair from above.

3. Someone riding a big bull through the opening parade.

4. Eating the rocky road ice cream from the Ice Cream parlor.

5. Giant pig made out of cans of beans. The pig can feed 20,834 people at 3 oz each!

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Nebraska State Fair

The Nebraska State Fair begins this Friday August 24th and runs until September 3rd. I will be out there all week, so I will have a new blog each day with 5 things that I have discovered or have found interesting at the fair! I am excited and I hope everyone will have some time to come check out the Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island, Nebraska!

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