Oprah part 1

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It's really a shame that I've been busy with all my extracurricular activities, because all these blog posts are going to be posted within a short amount of time. But hey, at least I'm doing my work. Technically I was absent though, so I'm using that as my excuse.

However! I am going to elaborate on my trip to Nationals! The plane left Reno around 6:30 on Monday morning, and we flew for a couple hours, until we landed in Denver, then transferred to the flight to Kentucky. I worked a little bit on my homework during the flight, but mostly re-arranged my Playlists and enjoyed my new music. Once we landed, I could definitely tell it wasn't Nevada anymore because there was fog and humidity in the air; two of my favorite weather types. First we got ourselves situated and drove around a bit, trying to get the feel for the town. Tuesday morning, we went to Churchill Downs where they feature horse races. We watched a touchy- feely inspirational video about the horses growing up and their training. Then we toured the facilities, and even got to see some of the horses practice. Afterwards, we went to Louisville Slugger and wandered around the museum for a while, until our tour started and got to see how the bats were made, branded, and stained. We even got to watch one of the workers make a bat by hand on a lathe. At the end of our tour, we got free cute mini bats, and got pictures with the world's largest bat. Wednesday was the first half of our competition, so the Farm Business Management (FBM) team went to the Galt hotel to test. Let me tell you, that hotel is AWESOME! Not only were their fixtures and walls and everything super fancy, but they had a bar (yes, the alcohol kind) made out of a fish tank with REAL fish swimming around in it! Not only that, but they also had a 12 foot wide, 20 foot tall (my approximations here ladies and gentlemen) bird cage with real birds and quail! Forget the competition, this hotel made it so much more exiting.