My parents and I spent Friday on a little field trip. The afternoon started out at the Kimball Arts Museum in Fort Worth where we went to see the current exhibit on the oldest Christian artifacts. It was pretty cool. There were signet rings dated from the 3rd century, and elaborately carved sarcophagi that depicted stories of the Bible. But the highlight of the afternoon was when we were looking at a stone carving Jonah and the "sea monster" and apparently my dad got a little too close for comfort and was reprimanded by the elderly gentleman employee. All in all, it was a good exhibit and I recommend it to anyone wanting to make a trip to Fort Worth.
Next on our day of culture, we went to the Stockshow and Rodeo. We were walking through the stockshow buildings and this 10 or 11 year old kid comes up to me and asks with a southern drawl, "You wanna pet my heifer?" I didn't really want to! But he was so excited about his heifer that I couldn't say no. So, he spends about 10 minutes telling me about how he has to show her for the competition on Sunday. As he's talking to me, this cattle owner is quickly prodding his cow along in the narrow aisle behind me. When the cow is directly behind me she decides that she needed to do her business---a lot---several times. I was praying it wouldn't splatter up on me or I was going to smell like poop for the rest of the evening.
The evening was completed by watching grown men rope calves, get on a horse for it to buck them off, and ride a very angry bull. If that's not entertainment folks, I don't know what is!
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