Alright! New day! Let’s go ride! What do I hear pitter-pattering on the canvas? Yeah – it’s rain. GAHH! And it rains most of the morning.

We decide to go to the Utah State Fair, which is made really easy to do by the fact that the KOA is next door to the fairgrounds! It’s kinda sunny around noon, and we have a pretty good time of it. We’ll spend a couple of hours looking around, then we’ll see about riding the trails. After hour two, we go into the photo contest exhibit to look around, and when we come out … it’s raining. Again. We’re just not going to get to ride this trip. We decide to get info for the next trip, and visit a couple of bike shops. Interesting outing. For one, there’s hardly any free parking, and that kind of bothers me. And no parking meters – most parking spots are numbered, and every so often there’s a machine where you can pay, using a credit or debit card, or cash, or you can use an app on your phone. Interesting concept, but at two bucks an hour, it’s kind of steep! I said “no thanks” and either avoided places where parking was charged for, or found free parking and went at it that way.

Anyway – bike shops. Went to two, and both were pretty disappointing. Oh, they had a lot of stuff, but not much information about any trails in the area. Interesting concept – sell mountain bikes, but don’t have any information about where folks can use these new $1,000 to $5,000 bikes they just bought. They tell you to go to a website, but the website really only works for locals. If you don’t know the areas they’re talking about, it’s really pretty useless. Would it really kill you to put in a map? Maps are good.

On a totally separate note (or, as some of my all-time favorite folks would have said: “and now, for something completely different”), I saw Twinkies are back on the shelf! No, not old Twinkies, NEW Twinkies! They’re back! The joke was that they had a shelf life measured in decades. Well, that’s not true, but I DID find something with a shelf life of ONE MILLENNIUM. No, really! I have pictures!

This is the product. Ok, it’s not spelled exactly right, it’s supposed to be a “c with a squiggle” instead of a “c”, but … here’s the expiration date on the back:

See? October 3013! Over ONE MILLENNIUM! Woohoo! I don’t think I’ll be around to sue if it makes me sick. Actually, I won’t even be around to eat it!

BUT – Speaking of eating – went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner – the Red Iguana, not too far from the KOA, and had a GREAT dinner. I had a seafood stew, and Barri had Shrimp Sonora, garlic shrimp. WONDERFUL food. And when we left, we were greeted by this awesome sight:

Yup! A double rainbow! I think it’s the first one I’ve ever photographed, so here it is. You’re welcome.

It’s almost midnight, and the weather’s looking better! Rain is supposed to stay away until after noon, and we’ll be long gone by then! Keep your fingers crossed!