My travelling has now come to an end for awhile finishing with a recent trip to Indianapolis for the National FFA Convention. On a 13 hour bus ride things can get a little uncomfortable. Sleeping on a dirty bus floor was definitely not all that great although it does bring back to wonderful memories of my trip to Washington DC this summer.
First off we left Ed's house at 9pm and stopped in Red Wing and Pine Island to pick up those chapters. And then we were off to Indianapolis. So we stop and we're like it must be like 7:00 and we all actually slept through the night, so we go to mcdonald's and order our food only to look at our phones and find out that it is 3:30 AM! i repeat 3:30 AM! Now don't ask why we would stop at 3:30 for breakfast but we ate and got back on the bus. Only to stop at 7 am for breakfast round number 2. Got back on our bus and drove to Fair Oaks Dairy. This is a farm that has 30,000 cows on 10 different farms. We saw one of the 10 farms that has 3,000 farms. It was very impressive and as a dairy farm kid myself I was very excited to see this farm as well as the 72 cow rotary parlor. Moving on from their we drove until we stopped for lunch at noon ate and got back on the bus to go to our hotel which was very nice however was, i kid you not, 1/4 mile long in just one hallway.
Then we got on the bus in our nice little blue jackets and scarf things and a goat. And went to the opening ceremony which was actually quite exciting. Then we went to the lady antebellum concert with easton corbin which was actually quite fun!
Thursday we boarded the bus a 7 am and went to the career fair and spent 5 hours collecting free stuff!! wow! it was fun. then we went to do our radio interview which my own mother and grandmother didn't even listen to! then we went to the talent show and another session.
Friday morning we went to the Indianapolis Speedway, needless to say i never need to go back there. We then went back to the career fair for another 2 hours. Then we went to a session where we watched Charlie Tank, a member of the Randolph FFA, recieve the national vegetable gardening proficieny award which is a great honor. We then returned to the hotel and went to applebee's for dinner and a night of swimming and talking.
Saturday we went to watch some fellow Randolph FFAians recieve their American Degrees and boarded the bus for home.
Besides the whiny kids that cause other FFAers to hate us and all of the fast food we ate, this was a great trip! Ed will definitely be taking me back next year!
why was there a goat on the bus and ed would make you stop to eat at mcdonalds at 3:30 am the man's gotta eat!
ReplyDeletethe and a goat thing is what the speaker talked about that night and it was an appropriate way to use it.
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