Northwest County Fair and Butte

Well another two weeks have gone by and it doesn't really feel like it. Two weeks ago kicked off the county fair which made for me working ALOT. I spent five days straight at the fair. We handed out over 1600 canvas bags. Those bags are quite the thing at the fair. Everybody knows that we will have them so it is one of their first stops. Although just so everybody knows they aren't as nice as last year and some men divorced their bag so they didn't need another one. Those were the two comments that always made me laugh.

I spent a lot of time talking to people about what they would like to see in a financial education course and got some good ideas.

The fair had some good parts. Ate some of the fair food, went to the rodeo and saw the Indian Relay races. The rodeo was great nobody got hurt and they have some really good riders around here. Alot of them are like in the top ten of the rodeo circuit. I am pretty sure that is a good thing. Now for Indian relay races. DANGEROUS!! To try to explain them the Indians ride bare back around the track once then as they come around they basically jump off that horse onto another. They do this for four laps. They don't even really slow down to jump off. Now if everybody stayed on the horse this would be entertaining. Although this boy feel off his horse and got ran over by a horse. Completely horrifying. He was seizuring. He went away on the ambulance. I hope that is was okay. That was the only race i saw and felt I didn't need to see anymore!!

The fair wore me out and I slept a lot after that.

This week I went back to Butte!! I really like going to Butte, some people don't really understand why, but I like it. I had some more AmeriCorp training there. Basically the different steps in starting my project. Lil went with and we got some new good ideas of some more directions that we should start taking with the project. We did a poverty simulation and I have decided that I don't want to be a single father of three kids. I was the father of my family, my 13 year old son was selling drugs, my 8 year old daughter didn't go to school, my 3 year old son went to work with me cause I couldn't afford day care, I couldn't feed my kids every week and almost got kicked out of our house. I didn't do very good living in poverty with three kids. But I am doing much better living single with the poverty thing just so people know.

For a night activity we took a bus up to the Our Lady of the Rockies. This was very very neat. She is 90 feet tall and has a white gloss paint on her to make her shine at night. It is a dirt road all the way up. You go up 3000 feet, and 14 switchbacks up and down. The lady driving never stopped on the way up. She was a great driver. We saw the richest mine also on the way up. The story was a man lost his job so while waiting for his retirement to come in he started mining a little. He had to have diesel brought in to run things, well he got behind on some of his bills so the person that was delivering went into the mine looking to collect money. He saw some glowing lights and figured that was where they were. Although he didn't find them or any gold he found marijuana plants. The owners got arrested. They had quite the supply of pot. The moral of the story was lock your mine doors and pay your bills.

Up on top they have a chapel where they hold weddings, the view is great from up there. I want to have my wedding there just for the view. No pictures in front of the Berkley pit though. My camera died so a friend is suppose to send me pictures. So when I get those I will post more pictures then what I have from my camera.

This weekend is just going to be a lazy weekend I think. My mom is coming on Tuesday will get here Wed. May find some place to go for the weekend. Any suggestions let me know. I want to try to go somewhere I haven't been yet!!