Saturday Sky, Mitten Prizes, Balloon & Camel Races Oh My!

Note: Dial Up Warning - Extreme Image Heavy Post - All Pictures are Clickie Big Piccies

The last few days have been beyond fun and totally perfect. :D It's good to be an Otter in Reno!

PLUS I got word this morning that I had placed for the category of Most Unique Mittens in the Bitchin' Mittens KAL. *Happy Dance* I won a prize even. :D Wheeeeeeeeeee!! I've been hyper and happy as hell all morning and will likely continue to be this happy bubble of joy all weekend long now. *L* Also kickass and awesome is that my bestest girlie Cookie placed in a category as well, Most Traditional. :D She did kickass with her uber pink perfection mittens. It's cool when you do well in something, but to do so with your best friend is above awesome. :D Congratulations, Sweetie!!! AND to everyone else who won and the 48 peoples who entered as well. Totally cool stuff. :D Many thanks to Dave and the mystery judges for selecting the mittens you did and that they included me n' stuff. *blush*

That was a TOTALLY FUN KAL and it was great to be able to flex my creative muscles in a way I might not have considered doing on my own. :D

*Happy Dance*

And now for My Other Fabulous News. I went to the Camel Races yesterday!! :D AND I saw the Balloon Races this morning!!! :D How cool is this. Reno has soooooooooo much neat stuff to offer. It was my first time for each event.

Pictures From Yesterday's Camel Races up in Virginia City

The Day started off with a few walk arounds to warm the camel's up.

Lookie at this Cute Camel. :D

Unfortunately I was too enthralled by the actual Camel Races to take any pictures. *L* Maybe next year. This was the 47th Annual Came Race to be held in Virginia City. :D

Here are the Emu's. Yes they had Emu races and Ostrich races as well. *L*

Here's the Ostrich Race. *L*

The winner - He broke his shoulder (or something) earlier yesterday morning. o.0

I cast on to a scarf yesterday while waiting for the races to start. Here is a picture of an Emu feather a lady gave me with the scarf.  She also gave me a sparkly tiara headband thingy with silver shiny streamers. *L* The announcer called me on my knitting. He asked if I was paying attention. I was. :P

We weren't far from the Cemetery so I took a picture of that as well. :P

Afterword's we headed over to the Bucket of Blood for a drinkie. Cause you can't just be in Virginia City and not have one of their killer hot n' spicy Bloody Mary's. :D Unless your the honey and driving. :P


Here's a view from the parking area before we left. Lovely.

Saturday Morning - Reno Balloon Races

I wasn't sure if we'd be able to see the Balloons from our house or not. We can see the fireworks which they do at the same park as the Balloon races, but that's kinda different. It's about 12 miles from us and we could see them, but they were very small to look upon.

We skipped the big mess of people at the park. Being stuck with 140 THOUSAND people is not my idea of a good time. So we did a drive by. It was AWESOME! :D

Here's a picture I took early this morning for my backyard. No balloons were up yet, but I did get a birdie and the moon. ;)

Okay now here are the Balloons. I never really gave two thoughts about this race, but seeing it in person is REALLY freaking cool. :D

We saw this one from a distance and it looked like an Upside Down Ice Cream Cone. We weren't sure what the hell it was.

Convo Excerpt:

Honey: Jesus Christ, what is that thing.
Me: *pause* Jesus Fucking Christ, It's Jesus!!! *L*

I have a Million more pictures, but that should do for now. :P

Oh and here is the scarf I cast on to during the Camel Races. Plus a Reese Cup the honey surprised me with at the Balloon Races. *L* See Chocolate. It is a good day!

That was a LOT of fun. Today has a lot more fun left to it. So I'm going to go get at it! I hope y'all are having a GREAT Day/Weekend too! :D

Comments

[Cookie]

Roving!

Did you get any roving? Don't forget what's really important, Otter!

Oh, and congrats, love the feather and the scarf. Remind me to e-mail the rude thought I had regarding the Jesus balloon. *L*

*huggles*

[jae]

Well, you certainly know how to live it up! Very cool pics. Now I have to google about camel races. Too weird not to know more. ;)

[Dave Daniels]

Such a great post. And I LOVE the spicy Bloody, always room for that.
Did you kow ostrich makes for great eating? Really it does. Even on the BBQ.
Hey, that's that yarn? The coloration is great. I can think of a few things that it would be great for.
Congratulations on your win all your whole groovy weekend!

[Scout]

You get added to my bloglines JUST for saying "Jesus Fucking Christ"

I love you.

And all of those balloons come here soon!

[Jenn]

Shit Shit Shit Shit!

I wanted to go see the balloons. Wonder if they will be there tomorrow. Guess I will have to google it and see. I hate to be in a hug crown with the kids, but they would LOVE to see that.

And thank you for the cow balloon picture. I know HAVE to go see it :-)
Really, wouldn't you if they had an otter balloon? :-)

And I LOVE that yarn you starte the scarf with. Did ya get it in reno?

[Jenn]

Yup, they are in reno tomorrow. Guess where we will be :-)

[Devorah]

Wow! Looks like you had a great time. Thanks for sharing all of the fantastic photos. Squidette comments "boy, she got a lot done on that scarf!"

[Ann]

WOW..talk about eye candy. A few years ago for some odd reason they had some sort of balloon race not far from the cornfields..it was too cool...I needed you there for running commentary though.

Love the scarf and the yarn...what the heck is it?