It's State Fair Time!

It is that time of year again.............already............the Iowa State Fair.............eleven straight days...........and schools are about to resume for the new school year too...........OMG........time is a flying.......

......Seven Oaks has had a booth in the Varied Industries Building for ...........I think...........eleven years now...........many of you have stopped to get information or to say hi...........hope you will do that again this year too..........but we have moved!

.......this year we have opted to partner up with the Boone Convention and Visitors Bureau........which is in the same aisle that we have been in.........but a couple spaces west and on the other side of the aisle..........you really can't miss us..........

.......some of the more common questions we field include "when will the swap and season pass sale be held?".............and the answer is............the THIRD SUNDAY in OCTOBER.......save the date.......

........and "are you still floating the river?"............and the answer is.........yes we sure are, in spite of the unseasonably warm and dry summer we are still able to float.  We have had someone on a full service canoe, kayak or river tube float every day but two since we finished the Gladiator Race in May.  The river is low and slow...........about what you would normally see in late August..........but it is still flowing.............unlike many or most of the other rivers and streams in Iowa.

............and "when will you open for skiing, snowboarding and snow tubing?"............and the answer is...........we don't know for sure but NORMALLY we are open for the winter season on the first weekend in December.............but like so much of what we do at Seven Oaks it all depends on Mother Nature.  Whenever it gets cold enough to start making snow...........which is normally just before Thanksgiving.......we start making snow at night.......even though it gets to warm to keep blowing snow during the day............and then we go again the next night............BASICALLY WE ARE ABOUT THREE (3) MONTHS AWAY FROM MAKING SNOW!  Hard to imagine isn't it.........with all the hot days we have had recently.

......I see the Gladiator Assault 2013 people are offering a State Fair discount for our race in May..........check it out at the fair booth..........

See you at the fair.........