Katie, Becca "Bunny" and I ventured out Friday afternoon with the back of the truck loaded with three goats and a day's supply of survival gear for attending our first goat show at a fair!  Always priding myself in being the ultimate "manager of preparedness", I was not prepared for the 24 hours of contact with the masses of "fair-going public!"   You could say the 3 hour drive north to the Gwinnett County Fair in Lawrenceville, GA, was uneventful.  Well....not acknowledging the homeless man at DQ trying to convince me I had something loose hanging from under my truck, proclaiming he could save my day.  The only thing I saw loose under my truck was a homeless man trying to con me out of a few dollars as he virtually crawled beneath the front drvers tire!  Upon extracting this "less fortunate" individual from under my front bumper, we proceeded onward, goats safely in hand.  We arrived early, around 3:00PM, long before the majority of other goats.  It was brutally warm, mid to high 90's.  As the night wore on, pens began filling rapidly and by 9 PM the fair was in full swing.  The aisle got so jammed at points, that Katie said it looked like one of those conveyer belts in a potato factory with them slowly rolling forward!  Pictured below, was a lighter traffic moment, but you can see our pen to the left, with a sign we made, DO NOT Touch or Feed!  The fair closed at midnight, but there were still people milling about the barn from the fair.  The wonderful ladies with their beautiful Nubians planned to camp out in the aisle and assured us they would protect our babies!  Off to our hotel for a few hours of sleep before our return in the morning.   

There were some amazing people and animals at the fair!

Friday night was a late one and an exhausting one!  Sugar is passed out in Becca's arms, who was equally tired.  People walking by would ask if Sugar was ok. 

(Left)Katie and Bunny helped their friends Christy and Esther with some showmanship pointers before their class!




(Below)  Katie &  Roxy fourth from left  and  Becca & Honey fifth from left  
Ages 10 -16 Showmanship - 13 Exhibitors in all!    

Left -Top four finishers!  R to L -  Becca, (Go Bunny!)  Cayden, Katie and Alice! Awesome Job!   






Below - Honey show'in off her Showmanship blue!

Congratulations to Little Tots Estate Acanthus!!!  She won Grand Champion Sr. Nigerian Doe and more importantly is our Roxy's mom!!!

Katie purchased this lovely doeling, Double Durango French Vanilla, 3/11/2010, from Jan Conner of Pretty Penny Goats, Winston, GA!  We took delivery at the show and are so happy to have her join our growing family of sweet nigey girls!  Katie calls her Nilly and she was accepted by our little gang with no problems!  Check out our Goat Page for more pictures and details.  Big thanks to Jan for having the strength to let this little lovely go!   

Below- Surprisingly, Nilly and Bear became instant buddies!  He didn't, and still doesn't, love having Roxy around. But he has been very kind and gentle with Nilly since the very moment she was added to the paddock.  We are starting to think Bear is a racist, since Roxy is the only brown doe!  Katie commented that we should get a few more dark does to balance things out, but then David said that probably would only lead to goat gang-banging!