Rodeo Time

I love every January because it brings along the annual Stock Show and Rodeo at Ft Worth. We had an early morning getting everyone ready and out the door so that we could make it to the 10 AM rodeo bright and early.

Before we got to the rodeo we stopped at the petting zoo. Before we even got inside there were 2 little goats jumping at each other and fighting like crazy. The black goat was half the size of the white one in the picture below... but he had NO fear. He even had other goats picking on the white one!



They gave us ice cream cones full of food to give to the animals... there were chickens, goats, bunnies, rabbits, a cow, kangaroo, and emu's. Izzy was a little hesitant to feed them from her hands and instead left that up to Danny and I.



This little baby goat thought he was a rabbit. He stayed cuddled up to them the whole time we were there.



Once our time was up at the petting zoo we headed over to the rodeo. They had already started so we got there for the grand entry. Izzy's favorite was the rodeo clown on the little pony.




Our favorite part was the wagon racing. Izzy and I picked our favorite wagon for all 3 races... but we only won 1 race... go BLUE! These guys came from Alberta and Saskatchewan.

After the rodeo we headed over to the show bars to see all the animals. Izzy fell in love with a lot of rabbits.... this particular one was huge... and had a cool toy in his cage. We had to watch the signs on each cage as a lot of the rabbits would bite.

When we went into the horse barn we found our blue wagon... woohoo!

Finally... we found the midway and all the rides. Our first was on the feris wheel. Danny was brave even though he deathly scared of heights and went for "NO hands"!

While we were on the feris wheel we looked over and saw a giant slide. Izzy and I had to ride together as she's still a little short to go alone... we had a blast going all the way down. See us in the purple lane WAY up there!

A midway shot....

Another midway shot....

And finally at the bottom....

Danny and Izzy tried their luck at this moving staircase... I was dying laughing at them... finally the carney turned down the speed for them.

We found a worm ride that went really slow, then fast, then up and down... pretty fun. And even better because no one else was coming up to ride it so the carney let us go around 4 times!!!!!!!!!!!

Our last ride was this big circular tube that went round a round... hard to walk on it.