Alaska has a fair share of the unusual. At the State Fair we saw The Rat Race and that certainly fits in the “really” category. A gerbil is released from a small space in the middle of this wheel. It stares for a minute or two at the crowd and then darts for a hole. If your 25 cent bet is on the color that corresponds with the hole you can win up to a dollar. The Alaska legislature had to pass special rules to allow this long tradition to continue at the fair. I lost 50 cents - I think the gerbil did not like pink.