Month: July 2012

We visited the Santa Rosa County Fair, there were lots of fun things and I’m sure Joy might talk about all of them later. The most important thing was a Mutton Busters group had setup camp on one end of the fair. After watching the noon show Chase said he wanted to try his hand at Mutton Busting.

For those not familiar, kids between the age of 4-7 weighing less than 60lbs get put on a sheep who’s been separated from the flock. When the door opens the sheep runs to the other end of the ring where the rest of the flock is. The kid holds on to the wool as long as possible. Whichever kid who holds on the longest wins. In the noon show the winner was on about 5 seconds and most rides last less then that.

Chase was up against two other kids, the first one didn’t last long enough to get a score, and the second kid was on about 5 seconds and scored 85. So Chase needed 86 or higher to win. Check out the video to see what happened