So, a couple weekends ago, I went to my first ever
So, this is what it was like to an outsider.
It starts out with a lovely, small town parade ranging from Miss Russet to a bunch of old people that kinda do look like potato sacks. In addition to Salt Water taffy, they also throw "Idaho Spud" bars (not my thing, but oh well), candy bars, and Cox Honey straws. This was a new thing for me, especially since I ate all the honey at once and had a Shelley-fueled sugar rush.
After a damp parade due to the rain, we headed to the park for the Spudsy festivities. This consisted of a free potato with all the trimmings. I've never seen sour cream buckets so big. They had booths of all kinds, from funnel cakes, to smoked turkey legs, to dunking booths, to all kinds of crafty stuff.Let's not forget the competitions including potato-sack stuffing. This was pioneers way of getting free work done: Make a game out of it!!!
One part I enjoyed was dunking Vanessa in the dunking booth. That's always worth the money for it in my mind.
After a while, we all gathered around to get a good seat for the "Spud-Tug" This was the event I was looking the most forward to. Coming from a small town, I like small town celebrations, but we never had a spud-tug for Mormon pioneers on Pioneer Day. They get a big cement truck and fill it full of mashed potatoes and fill up a big hole with it. 
After it was filled, it down-poured for... oh... 30 minutes straight. Most people screamed and ran once the lightning started falling. Did us Gregory's move? Heck no! And give up these good seats? I felt pretty safe because the rocket scientist(Jessica) said it would hit the truck first. After it stopped raining, we still had the best seats and they started the Spud-Tug in the now muddy, potato soup.
Miss Russet came out in all her glory (tiara and camo jacket) to test the mush and approved. After that was some great entertainment watching all sorts of people get soaked. For being my first Spud Day, it was pretty dang entertaining.
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