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Where The West Is Fun: The San Diego Country Fair 2017

The beginning of June also signals an annual family tradition: The San Diego County Fair! This year’s theme is “Where The West Is Fun”, but isn’t a fair always fun? The sights, the sounds, the smells of The San Diego County Fair all let you know the start of the summer is here and it all just takes me back to when I attended the fair with my sister and parents, known as The Del Mar Fair when I was younger. Now, my husband and I take Dominic every year because I want him to also grow up with the same wonderful memories of The San Diego County Fair. We attended The Fair recently, and you still have time to enjoy all that The Fair has to offer. It runs from June 2 to July 4, and all ticket information can be found here. A way to save and get the best “bang for your buck” at The Fair would be to buy the “Passport to Savings” coupon book (either at The Fair or online), sponsored by Albertsons and Vons. It’s only $5 and comes with a free San Diego County Fair admission return ticket ($18 value), plus one of the coupons is for a free Souvenir Cup with purchase from one of the food vendors, Fresh Pretzels. The cup is refillable throughout the time of the fair, which is only $2.60 each refill! We buy it every year because it’s filled with amazing savings at vendors all over The Fair, but hang on to it because the savings can be extended to outside The Fair to places like 7-Eleven, Broken Yolk and California Sock Company!

Cheers and happy trails!

THINGS TO DO & THINGS TO BUY

The Garden Show

The O’Brien Stage

There is plenty of entertainment at The Fair at various stages throughout the fairgrounds. A full schedule of the remaining entertainment can be found here:

Entertainment at The San Diego County Fair

Bing Crosby Hall

The Bing Crosby Hall is one of several exhibition halls, perfect for shopping for those uncommon goods!

I’ve always wanted a nesting doll, and now I have one thanks to Russian Souvenirs!

My newest pin and Dominic’s newest spinner

THE FUN ZONE

Dominic’s absolute favorite ride, hands down. My husband and son ride it every year!

THE FOOD!

All Dominic wanted was the waffle from Chicken Charlie’s, but Deon and I opted to use the Fresh Pretzels coupon to get some fabulous food and a souvenir cup!

Of course I would buy a dessert involving cheesecake dipped in batter and fried!

The last bite of the day: Bacon wrapped deep fried jalapeno poppers!

Dominic ending the day with the frog he won at The Fun Zone and a final drink from our refillable Souvenir Cup

Thank you San Diego County Fair for another wonderful season! Until next year!

FTC Disclosure: I received complementary media passes to enjoy the San Diego County Fair. Although I did receive complementary passes, the opinions in this post are strictly my own.

Fashionably Late: June & July 2016 Events!

Yes I know, it’s me again, LATE as usual! It has been very crazy lately with lots of work events, dealing with exterminators and the newest addition to the family: Joey, who we adopted from Clear The Shelters! This “Catching Up” post will cover June and July, then I’ll get through August in another post.

Have a great weekend, cheers!

“LIVING IN STYLE” AT POTTERY BARN, FASHION VALLEY – 6/12/16

In June, I attended the “Living in Style” event hosted by stylist Dean Hall and Autumn Ajirotutu of WAGS (who also has a blog, Temptasteious), at Pottery Barn at Fashion Valley. She is the wife of Seyi Ajirotutu, who was formerly with the San Diego Chargers and most recently of the Philadelphia Eagles, but is now a free agent. They both styled some fantastic tables in-store, and Autumn baked delicious treats, which Dominic very much enjoyed!

SAN DIEGO COUNTY FAIR – 6/18/16

Yes, that is Chicken & Waffles on a Stick and it was everything I hoped it would be!

I think my hubby wants that Steelers neon sign, what do you think?

Our brave boy, always ready to try something new, like holding a frog as big as his head!

I don’t think I documented our adventures at The San Diego County Fair last year on the blog, but I always do everything in real-time if you follow me on my Instagram. In addition to the Chicken & Waffles on a Stick, I also dove into the French Toast Bacon Bombs head first because it’s what you do at a fair!

COMIC CON INTERNATIONAL – 7/23/16

Power Puff Girls IRL (sort of)!

Adventures in South Park: Not sure what my husband is doing in the picture below, but I think it has to do with Santa Claus?!

As we did last year, we ventured around outside the world-famous Comic Con because tickets are not as easy to get as they were, once upon a time! But we still had fun because they’re just so much to do and look at all around the San Diego Convention Center and we were pretty exhausted by the time we got around to it all.

Just for fun, here are my passes from previous years, when you could walk up to the box office and purchase them on the day of the Comic Con. Those were the days!

CLEAR THE SHELTERS – 7/23/16

For new adoptive pet parents, wonderful free services are offered from their first vet visit to their first grooming session. We took Joey to Preen 2 Pristine and he got an adorable little bandana after he was groomed fresh and clean!

Right after the Comic Con, we decided to adopt our newest family member from the Clear the Shelters event. Meet Joey, our 1.5 year old Chihuahua mix! He is amazing and we didn’t even have to “potty” train him, so someone must have taken good care of him when he was a puppy. The description on his cage stated he was good for kids 8 and older, so the handler allowed us to play with Joey prior to making the decision, and so she could see if Dominic would be compatible with him. Joey and Dominic played well together, and now Joey is a part of our family!

We absolutely love him and we’re so glad we adopted!

MEETING ERICA STOLMAN OF FASHION LUSH AT UNO DE 50, FASHION VALLEY – 7/30/16

Free gifts with my purchase below!

At the end of July, I stopped by to meet Erica of the blog Fashion Lush at her Uno de 50 event at Fashion Valley, who is absolutely adorable and sweet in person!

This was my first time really getting a look at the Uno de 50 jewelry up close, and they have a lot of very cool silver pieces. I liked the skull bracelet I purchased because the leather was brown, and I got a few cool “gifts with purchase” like a shirt, Godiva gift card and another bracelet!

Weekend in Pictures: A Fond Farewell to the Fair

Dominic had his face painted during our third visit to the fair a couple of weekends ago. He got Spiderman painted on his cheek and did so well and sat still like a very big boy. He also did very well during his first big fireworks display last week. Typically we set off for Las Vegas during the Fourth of July because we can set off our own fireworks in the cul-de-sac of my in-law’s house. But because the holiday fell in the middle of the week, we decided to celebrate the Fourth at the last day of the fair last week. I know it’s technically not a weekend, but it certainly felt like one! As my last hurrah to the San Diego County Fair, I had a chocolate dipped cheesecake slice. It was better than I could ever describe here (and as my husband stated, I should have had them roll it in Oreo cookies). Hope you had a great weekend!

Weekend in Pictures: Zip It Up!

Zip liners: Cy, Deon and Rholnna

The zip line tower

We have gone to the San Diego County Fair every week since it opened this year, which we’ve never done before (the first time was Father’s Day, post here and this post marks the second time). Now that they have offered this unlimited pass, any trip to the fair going forward is basically free. Additionally, a promotional booklet called the “Passport to Savings” was being sold outside the fairgrounds of coupons that could be used both inside the fair, and then at vendors outside once the fair is done for the summer. I wasn’t going to buy it, but the salesman said “Don’t let love tear us apart, get your Passport to Savings right here!” in honor of my Joy Division shirt, which meant that I just had to buy a booklet because he was so clever. But I’m glad I did because some of the coupons were good for free drinks with purchase, buy one get one free items, or discounts. The best discount was the $5 off of High Fly’N Zip Line, which my sister, my husband and I all took a ride on. Deon went twice (that daredevil).

These are pictures from last weekend, and this time we brought along my sister and my niece. Of course we indulged in more fabulous fair food, including fried cheese curds (yet another first). We also have video evidence of our thrill ride (if the video is not currently below when this posts, it will be added at a later date). Hope you had a great weekend!

Mei-Lin and Dominic being cute (sneaky alien!)

Ah, glorious deep-fried cheese curds!

Weekend In Pictures: It's All Good When it's Fair Food

For Father’s Day, we went to The San Diego County Fair, where the theme was “Out of This World” and centered around all things science and science fiction. My husband tried zip lining for the first time, which I got a chance to do just this past weekend (video to come). Then we all tried our hands at archery, including Dominic! And of course, the food we indulged in was clearly an experience that could only be described as other worldly. Hope you had a great weekend!