Did the Puyallup (Last Saturday)

Shopping and viewing livestock can be very tiring.



But teenagers recover quickly.

The carnival is open!

But stay away, kiddies. It's evil and dangerous. Mwa-ha-ha.

Another Carnival Update

Chandira says she smelled a strong almond odor last night outside the office. Therefore, the carnival people are capturing children and poisoning them with cyanide. The movie trailers and city inspection crews are just fronts for their nefarious deeds.

Carnival Update

They've loaded the Honey Buckets onto a truck. Hopefully they're empty since some are at odd angles. It seems the carnival's over before it started. Either that or they only leased the portapotties for one week and now the leaser has come to collect them.

And one of their semitrucks was on fire a short while ago. Perhaps it had a generator inside. Billows of white smoke, a guy running around with an extinguisher.

Plenty of official red jackets over there now, like they're the crew running the place. But that doesn't mean anything. They were there last week, too. A jumbo trailer is pulling up. It has six entrances on one side. Maybe Tom was right when he said it was a movie set...

The carnival is a big tease.

Oddly enough, the carnival still hasn't opened for business. What are they waiting for?

The carnival is coming to town!

Across the street from my office, a carnival is setting up in the big, empty Northgate south parking lot. The odd thing is that the lot is already being used as a road-construction staging area! So we have all these dump trucks and machinery racing around right beside the carousel and mini-rollercoaster without so much as a chainlink fence between them. There's a little three-foot fence, but I don't know who that's supposed to protect.



Notice the half-built ferris wheel at the right. They've completed it now, with seats and everything. Just when we thought we'd have to hang onto the bars. . .