Yee haw!

Today we spent the whole day with Team Z at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo. Here are my observations from the day...

This morning before we left I told Eli we were going to see some cows today. "In America?" he asked.

Once we got to the Stock Show, Grace and I in particular were pretty focused on finding some pygmy goats. Sadly, no pygmy goats...but lots of llamas and alpacas. I mean LOTS of llamas and alpacas.

Grace, like her mom, cheers for the cows instead of the cowboys during the rodeo. Hee hee!

Eli DOES NOT want to be a cowboy. But he said he wouldn't mind being a tiny cow if he could run away from the cowboys.

Steve and Linds like maps. Mandy and Jer like to wander aimlessly and stop when we feel like it.

Linds and Grace are allergic to rodeos. Rodeos have a very well equipped first aid station with LOTS of allergy medicine options. Maybe it's not just Linds and Grace that are allergic to rodeos.

Eli liked the "horsies" and the "teeny cows" the best while Grace loved the "buckin' bull cows." Noah loved those horses that "blast out and you're like 'whoa, whoa, whoa!'"

Some people can do days and days and days and days of Stock Show and rodeo fun but Teams Z and P can only handle around 7 hours.

People watching at said events can be very interesting. Quite a variety of folks there!

The three amigos can put away a large bucket of cotton candy in record time.

A fried twinkie, according to Steve, should be re-named deep fried love on a stick.

Steve(in his Wyoming shirt) is no match for the CSU ram in a fight. li>

One should not accidently try to exit out of the wrong exit at the Stock Show because a security guard might tell one (and one's children) that he will "put them in jail" if they continue to exit that way. It might frighten one's children to be told this unfortunate information about "jail." (Where might this "jail" be? I wonder.) Also, said security guard might not care that it would take the three short-legged children, pregnant woman and three other very tired and lazy adults an extra 15 minutes to exit when they were 50 feet away from freedom on the other side.

And now I shall put three tired, but happy, amigos to bed! Night night!