Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Derby week!









Welcome to Derby week!!!!! Monday night we took the kids to the derby bed races. Yes beds. Contestants design a bed frame with a mattress, then they decorate it like the ones you see. They parade them around the arena, then go outside and take all the decoration off then race. The beds look like the cow bed when they race and like the parade when decorated. I hope I explained it so you can understand. The kids loved it and before the night was over Caroline was jumping up and down and yelling go! It was a little loud for Nick, he kept his fingers in his ears all night. Enjoy the crazy pictures.

Today we took the kids to the race track to see the horses and where the Derby is run. They loved it. We watched the horses "get dressed" in the paddock area, then headed out to the track to see them race. They each picked a horse to root for. They were hillarious jumping up and down and screaming like the people around them. Then we went upstairs so they could see the whole track and so Nick could watch the tractor rake the track. Then out to the paddock balcony to watch more horses and the tvg guys (for those of you who don't live here that is the horse racing channel where you can bet horse on tv.) and have nachos and pretzels. We watched one more race then headed home.

We are learning about the derby and horseracing for school this week. Plenty of free learning opportunities. Tomorrow is the boat race, which I think we are going to watch on tv. The pill pull is also tomorrow. This is when the horses get their gate positions. We also have some history of the derby. I hope everyone has their derby pick and has a great weekend.
Enjoy all the pictures.

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