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The Annual Rattlesnake Roundup

When I first heard about this Roundup a couple of weeks ago, I thought  they were pulling my leg?  Really?  A rattlesnake roundup????

Well, rattlesnakes are dangerous and they are over populated in Texas and they are NOT endangered.  If you encounter one, feel free to kill it or it might just kill you.  

We got there in the morning.  The  awards ceremonies weren't happening until the afternoon, and when you're with three littles, hanging around anywhere for too long is just too long.  So we walked around the pavilion, got some great carny food and then visited the next pavilion where there seemed to be about an hundred more vendors.  Then we left.  Before the awards.  Awards for:  longest snake, most weight of snakes, beard (probably longest, thickest, or whatever), etc.  

It was interesting, so now I can say: "been there, done that" and unless I'm compelled by photographer friends to go again, I won't have to go back for several years, if ever.  Just sayin'