Minnesota State Fair Scavenger Hunt

Here it is! The 2011 Minnesota State Fair Scavenger Hunt list. Good luck. You have until the end of the Fair to record your findings, and if you saw any of these items during previous Fair days this past week, they count.

Spot the following animals, buildings, or things at the 2011 Minnesota State Fair. Score double points with accompanying photographs. Triple points if you appear in photograph with item.

One point per sighting, but no more than one sighting per item:
⃝ Princess butter head mid-sculpt
⃝ Adult or teen sleeping in animal stall 
⃝ Smoking teen
⃝ Drunken 40-something in Midway
⃝ Groomed Mullet/She-mullet (shmullet)/Child-mullet (chmullet) – bonus points for tail-mullet (tmullet)
⃝ Person eating poultry (turkey drumstick, turkey sandwich, chicken taco, etc.) while wearing Gander Mountain duck head

                          

Two points:
⃝ Permed shmullet
⃝ Smoking or drinking carnie missing teeth OR finger
⃝ Group wearing multiple and various Gander Mountain heads
⃝ Overhear corn dogs versus pronto pups discussion

⃝ French fries or cookies spilled in front of vendor’s booth
⃝ Child and caretaker walking alongside stroller filled with stuff
⃝ Group wearing matching zubas
⃝ Someone you know that you had no intension of meeting 
⃝ Girl wearing flip flops and limping, extra point for blisters
⃝ Multiple people walking together and both/all texting

Three points:
⃝ Child’s muddy footprint on wall in Fine Arts building
⃝ Terrified person (adult, child, or teen) crying or running from large freakish robot guy who roams Fairgrounds on his scooter
⃝ Someone discarding uneaten portions of new food
⃝ Shirtless man in or directly outside of beer garden
⃝ Handlebar mustached man eating anything on a stick 
⃝ Wine on a stick 
⃝ Local or national celebrity (NOT be performing)
⃝ Human in mascot costume (any mascot will suffice)

Extra Ambassador Points for:

Score five bonus points for asking a stranger if you can eat off their plate (examples: May I taste your cheese curds?  May I have just one of your Sweet Martha’s cookies?  How does that chocolate jalapeno taste: Mind if I have a bite? OH LOVE mini donuts: Can I have one of yours?).  Score additional five points if stranger grants your request.