Today, just for a little while we experienced life without Nell and it wasn’t good. Mike updated her yesterday afternoon but when we got in the truck to leave for Sacramento this morning she wasn’t her usual chipper self and wasn’t able to navigate at all; it seems that only the freeways loaded while no other roads were in her memory.  We decided to head to Sacramento anyway and use my phone to navigate, what a mistake that was. We were heading to the Sacramento County Fair and managed to get onto the freeway just fine, but it all went down hill from there. Next came lots of shouting and crying and swearing and more shouting before we finally made it to the fairgrounds. After this mornings palaver I can honestly say that Mike and I would not have made it to our tenth anniversary without Nell, it would have been 8 and done.
After all the drama the fair was nothing too special and definitely not worth the stress involved in getting there. But we spent a couple of hours wandering around the animals and trying to avoid the millions of kids. There really is nothing quite like the Del Mar fair, so if you’ve been there you can just skip every other one.

Mike: "Nell" is "swell"!!!!
                                                        Looks a little bit like Tal-y!