Matthew's First Stampede

As promised, we did the Stampede thing today.. boy am I tired. Stampede is just like chinese food.. when you haven't had it for a while, you really want to go, but as soon as you're done with it, you don't want it again for a very long time.

That said, we had a lot of fun. We didn't go down to the grounds until after Matthew's afternoon nap, which was later than usual today because he slept for 2 1/2 hours this morning! So, we got there about 5:30 p.m. We walked around a little bit, but there were sooo many people there that it was making us crazy! First stop was supper. As you can see, Matthew just helps himself to whatever he wants :O)



Then we had to make a beeline to make sure that we got a seat for the SuperDogs show. That was the main attraction for us! Oh Boy, I wish I had a videocamera. I have never seen Matthew so excited about something in my life! I thought he was going to pee his pants. We got seats right in the first row and Matthew thought that the fact it was all dark with all kinds of colorful lights all over was exciting.. and then he got to sit in a seat all by himself (except Mommy had to keep one leg on it otherwise it folded in half with Matthew in it!)... and then he made friends with this nice little girl sitting beside us!



The only trouble was he did not want to sit in his seat. No, he wanted to go and try all of the dog gym thingys. A little bit of a problem. Anyhow, the show started soon enough. Of course, everyone started clapping. I think Matthew thought the whole audience was clapping for him since we always clap when he does something amazing for us! He thought this was soo funny, he had the biggest smile I've ever seen on his face and he was flapping his arms up and down and just so darn excited!

But, all good things come to an end. We never made it to the end of the show because Matthew was just too excited about everything and we couldn't keep him sitting still. So we bailed.

Matthew did come home with 2 new friends though :O)