Rodeo Rumble

In Government class every semester we talk about the regional difference in attitudes about guns.  Why is it that people in the south view guns so much differently than other parts of the country?  Here is the evidence . . .

 They grow up doing this.  Guns are recreational sport - not weapons used by bad guys.  AND - here in the south we start learning about how fun they are at a very young age. 

 It was time for the annual Rodeo Rumble kids run.  JD posed with Percy the pig before running past us in a blur.

 There he goes!

 I though JD was a little too big to ride a pony in a circle but he said no --- he wanted to ride the horse. 

 Of all the things we did I think this was his favorite.  If you go to the petting zoo first thing in the morning the goats are extra hungry and get a little aggressive about wanting food. 

 He and dad rode this round and round ride that makes me sea sick.

 I didn't know that carnivals were allowed to give you a fish anymore.  BUT - here it is the fish JD won for throwing a ping pong ball into a little fish bowl.  Poor fish - he got a name and a bowl and we went to petsmart and got him food --- AND THEN --- he died and we flushed him. Tears were involved -- and all over a fish with a petsmart price of 13 cents.  BAD CARNIVAL FISH!!!

 JD meandered through a few carnival mazes.

We topped the day off with an airbrushed tattoo.  Except for the fish incident it was a great day.  I guess even the death of a fish can be considered a lesson learned --- never take a fish from a carnie with no front teeth.