Monday, March 28, 2011 By: Kate

ConAg Expo 2011


Bill's work sent him to the annual ConAg Expo in Vegas.  He didn't have to go, but he decided to take Will with him and make it a guy's weekend.  I didn't want to go (ugh.  Boring expo!).  Besides, someone needed to be home for Helena and her Prom.  They were gone for three days, but I think they only spent the first day at the expo.  They sure brought home lots of loot from it, though.  Will ended up with several shirts, about 13 lanyards, a hat, and who knows what else.

On the second day, they went out and 'toured' Hoover dam and the new bridge!  Isn't it beautiful?  They actually walked across it!  I was surprised to see video that Bill took of Will actually leaning over the railing and even joking about jumping off of it.

You see, when Will was little, he was afraid of heights.  Even open risers or metal stairs would freak him out back in the day.

I will also admit, I am glad I wasn't there because it would have freaked me out seeing him goof around on something so high.  I have an overactive imagination when it comes to horrible ways my kids could be hurt or killed.

Which reminds me.  On their last day out, they stopped and watched a dune buggy (?) race.  They were standing maybe 20 feet away (with no guard rail) from these dune buggies that would go barreling by at high speed.  Bill shot some video of that, too.  In one of the videos, a dune buggy sprayed him with gravel and you can hear him react ("Ouch!").

Yeah.  Definitely sounds like a guy's weekend.

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