farm show

Every year, for the past god knows how many years, my sister has watched the Pennsylvania Farm Show on PCN (Pa. Cable Network) Television. She loves it. Horses pulling stuff, rodeo, 4-H, and especially Sheep to Shawl. Okay, I'll admit, I love sheep to shawl too.

Each year I say something like, one year I'm going there. But work is usually in the way. This year I'm not working so I thought, why not? I asked Angel if she wanted to go walking someplace silly—the farm show. She said yes. Yes, we are weird.

So we went right after her doctors appt. yesterday. It snowed on the way to Harrisburg. I didn't download directions and the highways were well marked. We followed the signs to a parking lot, and got on a shuttle bus. First we took a picture of the parking lot sign, and the bus shelter number.

We arrived at the farm show and were greeted by a giant cow on the front lawn. It was the Turkey Hill cow. It had little friends.

We entered the building and came into a big lobby. We went left and up the escalator and ended up in an arena where alpacas or llamas were doing an agility course.  We left and went somewhere else. Then we found Clydesdale horses getting ready to pull huge wagons of cinder blocks. No thanks.

We walked around the corridor of the arena where merchants were set up selling everything "western". Clearly, we were in the wrong place. Where were the cows and ducks and pigs and 4H?

Finally we followed a sign for chickens. We ended up with cows, then horses, then bunnies. We never did find the chickens and ducks. We did find a former colleague and her family near the bunnies. And the 4H stuff. Never found the quilts or the weavers. Oh and the auctioning of pigs.

The farm show complex is a maze. You go out one door and you're in another space. You go out the door you think you came in and you're in yet another space. There were also a lot of children and teens there. I guess people take off from school for the farm show. I know the tween wanted to ditch school to go.

We rode the carousel. It was steep at $2 bucks, but the money went to some scholarship fund for kids studying agriculture. And it was a decent length ride. (That's PJ the bear in the pic with Angel. It's a long story. He does have his own web page.)

We wandered for about 2.5 hours. And then got back on the bus and headed back to the lot.

I don't know what I was expecting. It was fun, but I was a tad disappointed. It was like Ag Hall at the Fair, on steroids.

Tuesday Walk Stats:
Miles/Steps: About 3 miles
Bathrooms:  I-3.5.
Wildlife:       There better not be it was a farm show. Plenty of cows, horses, pigs, bunnies, llamas, peacocks ...
Weather:     No too cold, overcast, snowing a little. Inside was either toasty warm or cold. You need to keep your coat.
Extras:        Turkey Hill was giving out single serving size salted caramel ice cream.
                   I only took 2 pics.