All Des Moines was thronging to the Iowa State Fair. That's me on the left, posing seriously with a snazzy Sylvester doll I won at a squirtgun game. On the right, a perhaps even snazzier Mr. Peanut doll that my sister snared at another squirtgun competition.

Below on the left, Elizabeth and I engaging in heated combat. On the right, one of the cars in the fair's "Bear Affair" ride. (We didn't arrive at the fair until 9pm or so, hence the pitch-black backgrounds.) Onwards to more sights