Yee-Haw!

Tim and I finally made it out to the Rodeo. Some of our friends called us up, said they were headed over, and invited us to come along. So we did! It was a rainy day, so we had some fun with our huge umbrella.


Tim getting some cashola out of the ATM.

We went and watched some herding dogs "herd" some sheep. SO COOL! I'd LOVE to have a dog and some sheep one day. :)

Then we went and grabbed some grub... My $5 corndog, and brick of fries (which we shared with our friends), and Tim got some BBQ. Yum!

We walked around and looked at some shopping booths and livestock. We did a LOT of walking! (By the end, my hips/legs were SORE!)

Here we are with some cows. (Aw man! My cowboy boots got cut out of the frame!)

Me and a smiling pig. :) Ooh, and you see the toe of one of my cowboy boots. Did I mention that a shoe shiner at Tim's work fixed the soles and heels of my boots (and polished them) for $18! Awesome!

Tim LOVED petting the pigs. But it's not like they were very soft or anything!

In line for some FUNNEL CAKES!! We shared one. Yum! And we didn't stand in line for 3 hours for it! (Remember our 4th of July experience last year??)

Tim's parents will be driving through town again at the end of this week...so I think we'll go again. Maybe we'll go watch some bull riding this time!

Body Worlds 2

Last week, we FINALLY headed over to the museum to see the Body Worlds 2 exhibit. I've been wanting to see Body Worlds since I first learned about it a year or two ago, but we were never in an area where it was being shown.

It's a whole showcase of real, preserved, human bodies (of people who requested to donate their bodies to this), by Gunther von Hagens. In the larger displays, the entire human body is intact (minus the skin). In smaller displays, he's deconstructed the body so you can get a view of how the body really fits together.

Hurray hurray! Tim and I used our college I.D.'s to get the college discount, and walked through the exhibit. Tim was quite apprehensive at first, but became intrigued and impressed. (The only part where he felt slightly queezy was when we saw the blood vessel displays... apparently, Hagens somehow pumped red plastic through the donator's veins, which became the form of the "sculpture".)

I really enjoyed seeing the embryos and fetuses... There was one display of a pregnant lady with a fetus inside her. VERY cool and interesting. One day, I'd love to see the first Body Worlds exhibit (where animals are also "preserved").