Saturday, April 19, 2008

Where are the Blue Bonnets??

I have been telling Dave that I want to take Isabelle to go get her pictures taken in the bluebonnets, Dave does not relate to my infatuation of pictures but he agreed to go. I was incredibly excited when I found out that Ennis has an annual Blue Bonnet festival every year. Mom, Dave, Isabelle, and I went to the festival pumped about getting some good pictures of the blue bonnets.

Our first stop was the festival itself where Isabelle was able to ride the horses. She was so cute and very excited!! She kept saying, "horsey, horsey" and I told mom that she is excited now but there is no way that she will actually get on. WRONG! The girl loved the horse, she was so big riding all by herself. She laughed the whole time and kept yelling, "gidee up horsey", "faster", and "yee haa".



After the horses we walked the festival and found a bounce house area where Isabelle could play. She tried the first bounce house but was a little scared so we decided to try another one. On the second bounce house Dad decided that he would go with her so she would not be scared. Despite what it looks like in the picture she was not thrilled with the idea. Needless to say the only person who came out at the end of the bounce house obstacle course was Daddy.



We stopped for a picture with a dinosaur.



Isabelle kept telling Daddy that she wanted to ride on the fish ride. We finally get to the fish when a train comes by and scares the crap out of Isabelle. She for some reason has suddenly become afraid of loud noises and we were about 15 feet from the train when it tooted the horn. So we had to wait until the train passed before she would get in the fish, and it was the train that never ended. There was one poor girl that was waiting on us to ride the ride, luckily she was nice enough to wait for Isabelle to calm down to ride. Then Isabelle insisted on sitting with her.. LOL what a wimp.



We then took Isabelle to the petting zoo, she had soooo much fun. She kept chasing the ducks and chickens, because every time that she would get close they would run. Finally the guy had to hold a duck for her to pet. She saw ducks, ponies, chickens, a pot belly pig, and rabbits. It was so cute the way she would wave her arm and say, "come her ducks".. I love it!!




On the way back to the car we ran into the Ennis Fire Department and they were cleaning their truck after just putting out a fire. Isabelle started yelling, "firetruck" (which sounds like f***ed up when she says it).

Take a look at this picture, an old gas pump with .25 per gallon!! Oh, how times have changed.


Isabelle stealing Grandma's water.



Oh yeah, back to the search for the bluebonnets.... There aren't any! We drove all along the paths and the 40 miles of blue bonnets they claim to have did not come this year. The people told mom not to be disappointed because they are not as good as they were last year, duh they aren't any!! We saw a few very small patches but they were on personal property surrounded by barb wire. Better luck next year, and I will continue my search for the blue bonnet picture.

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