The Southern Fried Festival

On Friday, September 26th, we decided to take the kids to Columbia's Southern Fried Festival.  It's not as popular as Mule Days, but we wanted to check it out anyways. :) It was a beautiful night to go and the kids had a lot of fun.  You can see that they enjoyed getting their faces painted.  There was one disappointment for us parents though--where was all the fried food?!!!!  We were looking forward to plates full of southern cooking, a.k.a. fried food, and we had a really hard time finding it.  We found fried oreos, french fries and some fried fish.  KFC was the sponsor---where was the chicken, Colonel!  We ended up having pulled pork sandwiches, very delicious, but not fried.  Well, it's not like we will never be able to find fried food.  Our waistlines are just a little better for not having found any at its very own festival.