Ostrich Festival 2010

On Saturday, March 13th we attended the annual Chandler Ostrich Festival. This year Brent and I took Grant and Brent's parents to the festival. The first attraction we watched were the ostrich races. We were a little late for the event and didn't get great seats for it.

However, when the second event started, camel racing, we had a great view of the jockeys racing the camels around the track.

Brent's parents and Grant check out one of the camels after it finished the race.

All of the camels were anxious to chow down on some oats. This picture is funny because only one camel is getting the oats. The other three happen to already be chewing on some.

Camels aren't that soft to pet. Grant was careful to not get camel spit on him. As the camel chewed on various things, you could see into its mouth and see lots of saliva. Yuck! One of Grant's favorite places to visit at the festival was the petting zoo. The zoo had normal petting zoo animals like goats and sheep but it also had some unique animals too. Grant loved all of them!

This is a Watusi. It is a breed of cattle from Africa with gigantic horns. It's hard to imagine how this creature carries those huge horns around. Maybe its exhausting and this is why he is laying around the pen!

The baby goats loved Grant and Grant loved the baby goats. He truly has Robles blood running in his veins. We will have to find a way for him to have his own baby goats to raise :)

One of the last shows that we watched was all about Monkeys. This monkey is very colorful. His face changes colors depending on his mood. He looks frightening.

We are looking forward to attending the festival again next year! Maybe you'll be our next guest!