I am at a rodeo! A real, western rodeo! I've lived here for 7 years, and never been, and thought it might be something fun to do on a weekend. We saw bronc riding, calf roping, calf wrestling, barrel racing, and bull riding. It was pretty cool. I think my favorite was when they had 16 high school kids in the ring, and they let in 8 calves. If you cought a calf, you won a scholarship. One girl cornered a calf and grabed it around the neck, and as they struggled they butted heads. She fell to the ground, but would not give up the calf, even when it dragged her around. She got back on her feet, and wrestled the calf down, and the two of them went back and forth for a while. She finally got her rope around its neck and started to drag it to the center, but it dug in its hooves and would not go. There were some adults there to help, and so one guy pulled the calf's tail, and she pulled the rope around its neck. It was one stubborn calf, but they finally got it in. Good for her.

We also wandered through some of the animal buildings. Most of the cows were outside, even though it was in the 30's. The goats and sheep were inside, and they all had on little shirts to keep them warm. The sheep stunk the worst. I did not know sheep smelled that bad.