Seminole County Fair 2010

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The Seminole County Fair

I visited the 2009 Seminole County Fair a few weeks ago in the parking lot of the Seminole Towne Center Mall in Sanford, FL. My definition of a county fair must be different than Seminole County's, because I would consider this event a carnival. It needs farm animals to be a fair (besides from a pony)...

Downtown Miami at Sunrise

These pictures were taken from the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas cruise ship in 2005. They are on the upper decks of the ship as it was pulling into the Port of Miami at sunrise.

Fun World...

Fun World is a little amusement park attached to the Flea World flea market in Sanford, Florida. They have an arcade with a bunch of really old games, miniature golf, go carts, a section of kiddie rides, and also a section of carnival thrill rides that are pictured here. The rides are kind of scary looking, especially knowing the parks history. They had a swing ride where some of the chains broke holding up a swing sending people flying. On the bumper cars, a hot electric pickup fell from above a rider landing on them causing burns. The swings are gone, but the bumper cars are still at the park. The remaining rides look like they have seen better days...

The Tilt-A-Whirl...




The Scrambler...


The red, white, and blue outer space themed Round Up ride. It wasn't open...


The Fun World Super Slide. All of that rust under the platform at the top of the ride can't be a good thing...


And the Fun World Express...

Two Headed Pickup Truck

I came across this two headed pickup truck in Lake Helen, Florida. I wonder if it works from both ends...

Seminole County Fair 2008

These pictures were taken at the 2008 Seminole County Fair that takes place in the Seminole Town Center Mall parking lot in Sanford, Florida. The pictures were taken on April 2, 2008...

The Ferris Wheel:








Monkey Maze (House of Mirrors):


Carnie Food:


Graviton:


It seems like small carnivals normally don't have dark rides. This one had two! The murals on the front of these rides are always so much better than ride itself.

Ghost Pirates Dark Ride:




Haunted Mansion Dark Ride:


And that's the Seminole County Fair. It really shouldn't be called a fair though. Fairs should have farm animals and giant vegetable competitions as well as rides. The Seminole County Fair actually did once have the whole fair experience and was held at the site of the old dog track in Casselberry, Florida. After the dog track closed, the fair moved to this mall parking lot, and lost the farm animals. Without this stuff though, it's just a carnival...