Time to pick a winner!

My job as Marketing Director of the Indiana Wine Grape Council has me at the fair alot. I have a booth in the Ag/Hort building.  I spend time in meetings and greeting many people as they tell me their favorite wine!
So I think I know the fair inside and out.  I've seen it all at some point.  However, Monday was a fun day to experience the fair with fellow bloggers and our kids!  Thanks to the Indiana Soybean Alliance, American Dairy Association of Indiana and Indiana Pork Producers for the tickets and meals they provided for myself and my Panda.  We were exhausted from walking the fair all day, but were well fed along the way!  I'll have more posts this week on our fun day of activities.

I am happy to announce the winner of the ticket giveaway, using the website RANDOM.org is...(insert drumroll)...Windi!  Please email me at the email on my contact list and I'll get your tickets to you!

Congratulations and enjoy the fair!

I'm Hopping Along Today!

The View on My Vacation

This was the view I had for much of our recent vacation.

My two daughters and husband, hand-in-hand while I followed along behind them.  In all fairness, I was walking slow because of a 34 week pregnant belly and feet, that at the end of the day, looked like this.

Swollen doesn't begin to explain how my feet felt.

My family decided to go to Holiday World for a vacation. Located in Santa Claus, Indiana, Holiday World is a great amusement park. And I love roller coasters.  However, I couldn't ride anything. So I had to follow my family around and wait while they rode the rides.

The first stop on our vacation was to the Indianapolis Children's Museum. My kids loved the Barbie exhibit! They got to dress up and model in fancy clothes.

The Egypt exhibit was very cool, as was the picture I ended up with. They are hanging out on a few sphynx and playing dress up with Mommy.

And then it's time to pose with Daddy!

Finally we were off to Holiday World to see Santa.

And get wet on a really fun ride!

We stayed at a nearby campgrounds where we rented a camper. One evening the campgrounds featured a golf cart glow parade. Our golf cart was pretty pathetic, but still fun.

However, in the end, we had a great time and can't wait to go back next year. Next time I won't be pregnant and will actually go on rides with the kids!

Nearly 3000 Wines to be Judged!!

What might be the best job to have for a few days? How about judging 2600 wines at Purdue University?!


The 2010 Indy International Wine Competition is taking place in the Memorial Union of Purdue University. Over 50 judges from around the world have gathered in West Lafayette to sniff, swish, spit and score their ways to determining a Best of Show!

 

We divide our judges into panels. The panel above is made up of Jeanne Burgess, VP of Winemaking at Seavin; Dana Huber, Marketing and PR Director at Huber's Orchard, Winery and Vineyard; Carl Behnke of Purdue University; and Scott Tucker, Co-President of Maple Leaf Farms!

This is just a portion of the wine the judges will go through. Whew!!

Want Free Tickets to the Great Indiana State Fair?

Are you ready for the Indiana State Fair?!?!?






I fully intend to waddle around the fair, my 34 week pregnant belly out front, for 17 days in August. And I along with some of my non-hugely pregnant blogging buddies are getting ready for Family Fair Days with GOODEness Gracious 'N Friends at the Indiana State Fair! We will be visiting the State Fair and giving you some behind the scenes looks at awesome State Fair activities sponsored by the Indiana Soybean Alliance!

To kick things off right today, the Indiana Soybean Alliance has given me and all of my friends (See links below) four Indiana State Fair tickets each to giveaway on our blogs to our readers! Woot!

So here is how you enter:

•Winner of 4 Indiana State Fair Tickets, courtesy of the Indiana Soybean Alliance, will be chosen at random on August 10.

•Each person is eligible for 2 entries: 1 entry for following this blog and 1 entry for commenting

•FenceRow to FenceRow is offering another entry opportunity for following me on Twitter @Indianawinebabe

•Please leave a separate comment below for each entry. (If you are already a blog follower or Twitter follower, please just post a separate comment saying so)

•Hop on over to all of the following blogs for multiple chances to win!


2 Maids a Milking

3 Kids and Lots of Pigs

Alarm Clock Wars

A Latte with Ott, A

Beyer Beware

Fence Row to Fence Row

Frugalista Farmlife

Gal in the Middle

Going Jane

GOODEness Gracious

Life is a Highway and Mine’s Surrounded By Corn

Off the Cuff and Indypendent