No, Really.  We WON!!  Megan and I decided to enter the Alaska State Fair with some of our dahlias.  This was the first year we have grown a large variety of dahlias and, thanks to my mom, it was a very large variety (26 different dahlias).  We had some really good looking ones so we thought ,"We should enter these in the fair".

This one is called "Kelvin White".  It is 12" across.  We only interred 3 dahlias and All of them won, but this one cleaned house.  It won First Premium (blue ribbon), Best of Division (purple ribbon), and Judges Choice (burgundy ribbon).  There were a lot of dahlias interred in 13 different classes and this flower beat them all.

We had two other flowers in and they won too.

OK. Here is the wholes story.  We entered four more flowers the next week, and they did great too.  In all we entered seven dahlias and took five first places!  We got a second place and an Honorable Mention.  The Honorable mention was one that wasn't really open yet.