My roommate, TauraLee, convinced me to go to Idaho Falls on Saturday to the annual Spud Day. It has been so hot here in Rexburg so we were surprised to see rain pouring from the heavens when we woke up! We got there, ate a ton of food, saw all of the booths 3 times (we took Taura's aunt and little cousins to see everything when they met up with us), and got completely soaked. I was so excited for the Spud Tug! Who wouldn't want to watch people play tug-of-war over a pit of mashed potatoes?! We got to see them fill up the pit with mashed potatoes that were mixed in a cement truck and very liquidy and then, once again, the heavens opened up and sheets of rain came pouring down on us! Everyone ran for cover and we headed home. I didn't get to see anyone fall in the pit of liquid mashed Idaho potatoes...oh well... I talked to one of my roommates yesterday about it and she said that people were diving in, even the missionaries got in on it. She also said that usually the potatoes are fluffy and not nasty liquid. I'm so excited to try it again next year!
This was the cement truck that they poured the potatoes in.
Getting ready to fill the pit!
And here it comes!!!
We were absolutely drenched and frozen the rest of the day!
2 comments:
Sick--just sick. If the potato is Idaho's state food, is Jello Utah's state food? Just wondered.
mmmm.....mashed potatoes and jello!
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