Texas-holy crap you are huge!

Friday: We left after school and headed down to Mallory's house in Pueblo. Her mom had made us stew and cake. It was really nice.

Saturday: We left at 7 and headed to Lubbock, Texas. We drove down through New Mexico and then over to Texas. We drove through Amarillo around noon and then down to Lubbock. The hotel we were originally supposed to stay in was so creepy all of us girls were concerned. Travis went to check in and Mandy and Mallory went to look at the pool and it was totally green and there was half a bra laying in the yard. They screamed and were like we are telling Travis we are not staying here! Also there were NO cars in the parking lot. Travis came back and said, "girls we are not staying here. Where do you want to stay?" We were so happy! There was actually a water main break on the road so that is why we couldn't stay there because they had no water. We checked into our Super 8 Motel. We practiced at Texas Tech for like three hours. Then we ate supper at Whataburger. We headed back to the hotel and went in the hot tub and pool.

Sunday: We left around 6:45 and drove to San Angelo. We practiced till 1:30 at San Angelo State University. We ate lunch in the van as we drove to College Station. We checked into our Super 8 Hotel again and relaxed until we went to supper at this BBQ place of which I can't think of the name.

Monday: We paracticed at Texas A and M until lunch time and then ate at Fudrucker's. We went back and finished practicing. We went to Cavender's Boot Store and went bowling. We ate supper at Jimmy John's.

Tuesday: We got up and drove to Houston, Texas. Once we got there we walked through the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, HLSR. That evening we checked into our hotel, Holiday Inn and ate supper at the Olive Garden. I gave a set of reasons and looked at some staples and went to bed to be ready for the contest.

Wednesday: The contest began at 10 and we finished around 4. We waited to eat supper with the livestock team and then we went out to eat at Razzoo's Cajun Seafood. Went back to the hotel and hung out then went to bed.

Thursday and Friday: We left for the awards banquet at 7. It lasted 8-10:30. Then came the most exciting part probably of the whole trip....we physically were stuck in the parking lot! We could not get out any way what so ever! We even had other teams helping us watch sides and ends. Then we even tried to pick it up! So this truck that was parked behind us we discovered it was unlocked and we found a cell phone on the dash and then looked for the keys anywhere we could think of, gas tank, tool box, under the floor mat-nothing! So we called the "DAD CELL" and he answered and we told him the situation and he came out and moved the truck so we were able to get out finally after at least a half an hour. We packed up the truck quickly and headed out at noon. We followed the livestock team. We drove up through Waco, Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, Amarillo, then we drove through a little bit of Oklahoma and up to Lamar. I co-piloted from Lamar to Fort Collins, 2-5 in the morning. After Lamar, Colorado we went up to Denver and then up 25 to Fort Collins. We arrived back in Fort Collins at 5 am, unpacked the van and headed to bed. I woke up at 10 and started unpacking and just relaxed all day.