Watermelon Festival 2007
We visited Rush Springs, Oklahoma for the annual Watermelon Festival. David's parents were born, raised, and married there before moving to Louisiana. As a kid David traveled to OK every year during festival time. I have a couple of times but this was our first time in 10 years. There were 20+ of us, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and Grandma. 
There are a lot of Watermelon farmers in the area and each year the town has a festival in August. There are craft booths, carnival rides, music and at 4 p.m. on Saturday is the Free Watermelon Feed. (Everyone is welcome, provided you haven't passed out from heat exhaustion by that time) 
On Sunday after the festival we traveled over to Mt. Scott and the kids had fun exploring. The night before the festival the city hosts a Rodeo. It's a small town and a small Rodeo but still fun to watch. We spent most of the time wishing we had stopped at a bookstore to purchase a "Rodeo for Dummies" book. By the end of each event I think we had all collectivley decided on the rules and scoring. The kids took part in the calf scramble and tried desparatley to pull the ribbon off the calf's ear. 
Now what I found very interesting about the Festival,(other than the man with a pet raccon on a leash) is that there is a Watermelon Queen. She was crowned the week before so that she could rule over the festival. We got a local paper to check times for the event and included in the paper was a list of prizes that the Queen was awarded. She was given standard things like a tiara, manicure, outfits, and a HORSE TRAILER. Yes, a Horse Trailer....... and it probably is something very useful for the Watermelon Queen to have.
We visited Rush Springs, Oklahoma for the annual Watermelon Festival. David's parents were born, raised, and married there before moving to Louisiana. As a kid David traveled to OK every year during festival time. I have a couple of times but this was our first time in 10 years. There were 20+ of us, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and Grandma. 
There are a lot of Watermelon farmers in the area and each year the town has a festival in August. There are craft booths, carnival rides, music and at 4 p.m. on Saturday is the Free Watermelon Feed. (Everyone is welcome, provided you haven't passed out from heat exhaustion by that time) 
On Sunday after the festival we traveled over to Mt. Scott and the kids had fun exploring. The night before the festival the city hosts a Rodeo. It's a small town and a small Rodeo but still fun to watch. We spent most of the time wishing we had stopped at a bookstore to purchase a "Rodeo for Dummies" book. By the end of each event I think we had all collectivley decided on the rules and scoring. The kids took part in the calf scramble and tried desparatley to pull the ribbon off the calf's ear. 
Now what I found very interesting about the Festival,(other than the man with a pet raccon on a leash) is that there is a Watermelon Queen. She was crowned the week before so that she could rule over the festival. We got a local paper to check times for the event and included in the paper was a list of prizes that the Queen was awarded. She was given standard things like a tiara, manicure, outfits, and a HORSE TRAILER. Yes, a Horse Trailer....... and it probably is something very useful for the Watermelon Queen to have.
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