Adel Sweet Corn Festival '16: What a Great Afternoon

We went to the Iowa State Fair on opening day, and we plan on going next Tuesday and maybe next Sunday, too. That doesn't mean we were sitting at home twiddling our fingers waiting for the calendar to flip its pages to enjoy great food, entertainment, and Iowa hospitality.

We visited the Adel Sweet Corn Festival on Saturday.

Adel's festival is held near and around its town square. Neither Inwood or Rock Valley had a town square, and I'm jealous of Adel's small town majesty.

We arrived at the festival a bit after noon, and it was about 70 degrees in the shade according to a local tree meteorologist.

Our first stop was to check out the food trucks. We shared a pulled pork sandwich that was great, but I was too hungry to pull out our camera. Daphne had a Jamaican jerk chicken sandwich that did make a photo shoot appearance. Sorry if partially eaten food grosses you out.

Nice job, Curbin Cuisine!

I checked out the car show.

After that we grabbed some free sweet corn. You just need to snag a paper plate and get in line. Once you get to the sweet corn stand you simply tell them how many ears of corn you want.

Then grab some milk crates and dig in.

Up next was the promised bag of cotton candy. Char gets this about once a year, and we always pay for it later. The sugar rush makes her whole body shake.

She gets a little out of control...

Luckily, she could burn off some energy on the inflatables.

We also caught a free performance from 80's metal cover band Abby Normal.

"Sweet Child O' Mine," indeed.

That's totally cheesy, I know, but parenting has made me such a sap.

On the way home we stopped by Petsmart to get some dog food, and I spotted these three kittens sleeping in an adoption cage. This post has already become sappy, so why not show you sleeping kittens?

Then, for a change of tone, I'm going to switch from cute cats to dirty dogs.

We also stopped by HyVee to get some grilling supplies, and I spotted the worst looking hot dog I have ever seen for sale:

HyVee, have a little more pride in what you sell. Even gas stations would throw a burnt brick like this away.

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