Thread by @amyklobuchar

So John and I went off the grid on our own at the Minnesota State Fair on a long Sunday afternoon journey in search of our friends' blue ribbon salsa 🍅🏆 and saw some really cool stuff along the way…

At first we thought it was in the horticulture 🪴🍎🐝 building so we asked some U of M master gardeners 🌸 and somehow ended up surrounded by the state's biggest pumpkins but no salsa...

Then a Christmas tree 🌲 decorated with all state fair ornaments…out of season but still!

We then made our way down Cooper and ended up with the clog 👞  dancers (would have liked to take a longer video but John really wanted to find that salsa!)

...And then the lumberjack 🪓🪵 contest....

On to the cat 🐱 and dog 🐶 pavilion and the "purrniture" section...that place was filled with lots of HAPPY 😊🐱 cat ladies but no salsa.

I didn't really think we'd find the salsa there but I liked this poster.

It was getting hot 🥵 so we tried the FREE mister 🚿

And then the craft beer 🍻 flights hanger and live music 🎶...You need a break on long journeys.

Then we got hungry and ate a schnitzel sandwich 🥪 with Farmers Union President Gary Wertish on the cool back patio of their booth (not free but really good). Sandwich not pictured because we ate it.

Ran into my former state deputy Kali Cruz, her husband Santo and their flock of five girls (the oldest two were born when she worked with me)! The girls had other plans besides looking for salsa.