Save a Horse Ride an Ostrich...

Friday we found ourselves at the Prairie Meadows Casino/Racetrack. We normally do not spend our weekends at the race track...but when I heard there were going to be exhibition ostrich and camel races I knew we needed to go! The whole experience was a new taste of Iowa for us and rather entertaining.

The camels getting ready to go!

Ethan could always push his way right to the front...he loved watching the horses come flying by.

Here are the camel and ostrich names a little bigger...too funny. Clark was rooting for Chile con Queso.

Ethan enjoyed his first corndog.

A little video of the ostrich races. The ostrich that won the race dumped the jockey off in the first couple of seconds. Then that bird just took off and escaped. He ran completely around the track and then jumped over the fence and got away. Everyone in the crowd was rooting for him to get away. "Free Willy!"