Saturday, April 3, 2010
Pony Express Sesquicentennial
Today we went down to the old part of St. Joseph. They're having a Pony Express geocaching event today to coincide with the city celebrating the Pony Express Sesquicentennial. It's a big festival! Mom & Dad are excited to show me off and let me meet some of their caching friends. We got there early and Dad wanted to take me over to see the shetland pony rides. Well, before we got there, I found some shetland pony poop and decided I needed to roll in it! oops! Dad quickly took me back to the car and he and Mom wiped me all over with baby wipes. Needless to say I had to wait in the car in my crate while they went to the caching event:( I didn't get to meet anybody. After that, we went down to the Pony Express site again. They were mailing some letters that the Pony Express re-enactors were going to carry to the post office, and we wanted to watch them take off. After we watched them, we went to a park and Mom & Dad rode their bikes for a little while. I waited in the car again. Then we went back and watched another Pony Express re-enactment. This one was at 7:15pm, the time 150 years ago when the 1st Pony Express rider left St. Joseph. There were some people clapping as speeches were made, and I didn't like that. Mom sensed I was nervous, so she took me farther into the park and away from the 'action'. Good thing she did, because they fired a cannon when the rider took off and that REALLY scared me! After that, we walked back to the car and went to our room. What a day!


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