Cowboy Festival

This year marked the 18th year of the Cowboy Festival in Santa Clarita, our kids' hometown. My parents have been attending for the past three years and loving it, so this year we got weekend festival passes and went all together for two days of western fun.
It was originally known as the Cowboy Poetry Festival, but has evolved to be a music and poetry fest, complete with crowds dressed from head to toe in Old West garb. It made for fun people watching. It is held at Melody Ranch Studios, an old western town set about five minutes from our house where many westerns tv shows and movies (such as Deadwood and Dukes of Hazzard) have been filmed. It is privately owned and only open to the public during this festival, so I was super excited to walk around the western town Main Street. There were some great musical acts, including The Messick Family Singers, a local group spanning three or four generations, and The Hot Club of Cowtown, made up of three string players with some mad skillz! The first day turned up VERY windy which stirred up a lot of dust, so Laney only lasted in the Bjorn carrier for about 3 hours before heading home to sleep all afternoon with daddy, while the rest of us stayed til 4 or so. Sunday we came prepared with the whole carseat/stroller combo (with dust cover) to make her more comfortable, and all stayed til 5.
WARNING:PICTURE HEAVY POST!