friends in low places

it's been ... forever since i've blogged, but i've been traveling a lot! like i literally was in manhattan only 1.5 weeks the entire month of september. but now i'm back and i should probably reflect a little one where i've been and what i've done.

you should also know that the dairy judging team is full of nicknames --- robin = chong. deanna = depat, zipper, debag. justin = j-slut.

1st: the dairy judging team and i attended our first contest in viroqua, wisc. it was a decent first EVER dairy contest for 2 of us, and as a team we placed 5th in holsteins and 4th in brown swiss. this is where we learned we do NOT like milking shorthorns. but the team spent some quality time in the van, and we hung out in the ghetto of des moines --- all innocently looking for the liquor store. thank goodness for la pita, our trusty garmin.

2nd: after returning to manhattan for 2 days and then leaving for omaha on wednesday afternoon, it was time to head to ak-sar-ben to finish my summer internship. this was a wild 4 days where i ran across the qwest center like a crazyyyyy person. but i got to help with ALL parts of the event, and it was amazing to see it all come together.

3rd: sunday night, i cut out of the qwest center to head to the airport to fly to madison, wisc. to meet up with the team. i landed in madison at 10:30 and judged the World Dairy Expo contest at noon the next day. after 12 classes and 6 sets of reasons, we totally deserved the free beer they gave us at 7:30 pm. we had awards the next morning, where i placed 8th in ayershires, depat placed 6th in brown swiss, the team was 10th in reasons and ended up 13th overall. it's really sad how one class can totally RUIN your scores. whatever, we learned a LOT and walked away with a better outlook on dairy cows.

now i'm back in manhattan and getting ready to focus on school. and tough enough to wear pink, as it starts next week! more to come on that.

OH! and the name of this post is a garth brooks song, just for depat. you see, she can't handle garth brooks so we made her listen to it. i can't handle nickleback so we had a wholeeee nickleback hour in the van. perhaps the next post will have a nickleback title?