The Festival and DINNER WITH THE STARS!

Our road trip is now in day 3, Saturday, with another breakfast at Panera and off to the Spirit of the Cowboy Festival.  McKinney is a small town with lots of shops in the town square and a heritage section with historical houses where the festival takes place.  We arrived at the festival just as it began and managed to be the first group of people to enter the home where you could meet and greet all the cowboys.  I only wanted to speak with James Stacy and have my picture with him and Robert Fuller.  Robert also took a picture with "K", my fundraiser with the Kiwanis Club of Coweta County.

 After hanging with the Lancer Ladies a bit, we decided to take the infamous trolley tour of McKinney!!  We did have a good time but it was a tour like no other.  The Tour Guide was a retired physician whose family went back several generations in McKinney.  We saw lots of houses, the park, the historical hospital and all 3 houses he lived in growing up in McKinney.  At one point we thought the tour was over, but nooo, it continued on to show us another park before returning to the festival.  It was a very quaint tour, funny narration and really quite sweet. At one point, the riders started asking questions of the tour guide about people he knew in town because they were all McKinney residents who decided to go along for the ride.  lol.  Off to the hotel to freshen up and get ready for the big dinner tonight with the stars.

We met some of the other Lancer Ladies in the lounge before dinner and I went to order Katherine and I something to drink and while waiting started talking to a gentlemen sitting at the bar.  We were talking about the dinner and he stated he was attending because he was one of the stars.  I did not recognize him and very nicely said I did not know his name and he introduced himself as Ken Farmer who also stared in Silverado, one of my favorite movies.  Well, I was embarrassed but he was really nice about it and of course I said I was sure to see him later.  Stacie came down to hang out with us and found out she had been a stunt woman in Hollywood and regaled us with lots of stories.

The dinner started at seven with the premise that you sat at any table of your choosing not knowing which cowboy would be sitting with you.  The Lancer Ladies decided to sit together and we took up 2 large sections of tables and our table was lucky to have Dan Haggerty sit with us.  He was charming and quite funny and kept us laughing with stories and  he flirted outrageously with Jan, Christie and Katherine.  We really had a good time.

Back to the hotel we went after dinner and again meeting some Lancers, Peggy and Stacie in the lounge.  Katherine deserted me and headed to the infamous room 211 for the upstairs party.  Stacie and I talked about everything and struck up a new friendship.  Katherine showed up to request my presence at the upstairs party, so I had to bug out for the fabulous Lancer Ladies.  Whew, what a night, lots of laughter, storytelling, and just plain fun.  One point of discussion was a video of a crocodile eating a girl on youtube.  If you haven't seen it, well, look it up.  One LL said it was real, another said it was fake and luckily we had a hollywood documentary filmmaker with us and she decided to view it frame by frame and decided, yes it was fake especially after the advertisement for the crocodile handbag popped up at the end.  lol.  If you haven't guessed, this was around 2 in the morning and I did not get to bed until 3:30 am.  Where was Katherine?  In bed by 11.  She just cannot keep up with her Mom.  On til tomorrow.