As expected, I had a berry good time this afternoon!
Woohoo for the Florida Strawberry Festival!
Late this morning, Ryan and I piled into his car and drove about an hour to Plant City for our very first trip to the Florida Strawberry Festival.
We knew to expect rides, games and all kinds of fair-type foods, including all the fried foods you can dream of!
Fried cookie dough? Fried butter!?
Our fried food mission was to find me an elephant ear. I had never even heard of elephant ears (basically a solid funnel cake for those of you also not in the know) until Ryan mentioned them to me a long time ago. We’ve seen funnel cakes galore at various events, but never an elephant ear and it’s been on my “must try” list for way too long.
Today was the day!
As demonstrated by my powdered sugar-covered sun dress, I think I liked it. 
The strawberry festival had so many neat things to look at and eat. I felt like we were pointing at something new to see every second. From rides to games to animals to delicious-looking treats, the festival was really fun and very entertaining.
I made a friend. 
Yes, that is a booth for doughnut burgers!
I’ve honestly never seen anything like the food at this festival. It was intense!
We played one game at the Strawberry Festival but mostly just enjoyed walking around and exploring the fairgrounds.
Of course we purchased our fair share of yummy food, including his and hers strawberry shortcake!
So, so good! We both licked our bowls clean.
Other treats included homemade root beer…
Kettle corn…
And strawberry and pineapple soft serve!
I liked all of our treats! We picked some good ones!
We browsed around and had fun goofing off for a couple of hours before finding our way back to our car.
He makes me laugh. 
Yeehaw!
Such a fun day! Apparently I was quite pooped after walking around for so long because I fell asleep on the car ride home. I’m an awful passenger on long car rides because I always fall asleep if the destination is more than 30 minutes away. It makes no sense to me because I’m a terrible napper!
Time to make a late lunch/early dinner. We both ate a ton of kettle corn which ruined our appetites for lunch at the festival, but now we’re feelin’ hungry.
I hope you’re enjoying your weekend!
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looks like you had fun! 🙂 and i love your dress!
I’ve never heard of that kind of elephant ear. My family called the extra pie crust that you trim off once it’s in the pan elephant ears. You just sprinkle it with a little sugar and cinnamon and bake it for a few minutes. Since you’ve cut it around the pie pan and the edges are jagged, they actually look like elephant ears. Yours looked pretty tasty, too, though.
This is amazing to me! I want to live in Florida. I can’t even imagine wearing shorts in February!! You’re so lucky!
LOL, I meant March. I guess I’m stuck in the past–although you wore shorts then too.
Strawberry Festival in March?! I live in Vermont and we have one….in July! i’m currently in New Zealand and enjoying the tropical weather as well!
AHH that looks like a BLAST!!! i wish they had fun little things like that over here.. and im so jealous of your weather!
It’s funny, in New England, your “elephant ear” is called fried dough and we call these elephant ears: http://whatscookingamerica.net/Cookie/PalmierCookies.htm
Looks like a delicious day! I’ve never heard of elephants ears, but I’m from Canada and they remind me of beavertail pastries! Beavertails are a yummy, classic Canadian treat – President Obama even made a special stop to get one during his first trip to Canada after his inauguration.
A party that exists solely to celebrate the awesomeness of the strawberry? I’m so there! Of course, if it were here, we’d have to use frozen berries and wear our winter coats. Your party’s sun and warmth are infinitely better.
Looks like y’all had a great saturday!! I want to try a reeses funnel cake… that thing looked great!!! 🙂
So delicious! That soft serve looked amazing. I’ve always wanted to go to the strawberry festival!
I can’t imagine not ever trying an elephant ear! It’s classic! Although most definitely not gluten-free for me. Now that soft-serve looks great 🙂
I love the strawberry festival! I’ve seen some great country acts for pretty cheap! And always bring home lots of strawaberries! YUM!
Your husband looks yummy!
I’m in jacksonvile and never heard of the strawberry festival. I think we need to move further southy. Jax is boring.
Love ur sundress where did u get it?
looks likes a fabulous day!
if you loved the food at strawberry festival, you should try the minnesota state fair sometime — best, weirdest and most delicious concoctions you will ever come across. highly recommended 🙂
Wow, that strawberry festival looks like so much fun!
your new friend is so cute!
We have a strawberry festival in my hometown Troy, Ohio this weekend! I’m excited strawberry everything! BBQ, burritos,donuts, even strawberry sushi! We have palm size strawberries!
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