Well we arrived at the school bright and early to head down to Indianapolis to start this year's National FFA Convention experience. There are 16 of us including Mr. Scherer and Mr. Martin and we were all excited to be able to see all of the blue and gold jackets in downtown Indy. Mr. Scherer had an interesting experience with Pat and Rick on the way down in his truck to deliver the luggage to the hotel! They had fun sitting on the interstate for an hour! Rick made sure there was never a dull moment!!
Mr. Martin drove the shortbus with the rest of us and we headed first to Lucas Oil Stadium to help get the Agriscience Fair participants get their displays set up. Afterwords we all met up and got to see Naysa perform with the National FFA Band before the opening of the Career Show! They sound great!
Then we headed to Buca de Beppo's for a new experience for some of us. It was the first time a few of the kids had ever been to an Italian resturant! It was a fun experience seeing all of the interesting pictures on the wall and eating some great food. We all got to test our dining etiquette too! I think the boys started to think the girls were heading to the restroom more than usual because they had to stand up an awful lot when they left and returned to the table.
After Buca's, we all got to go to the career show! We got A LOT of cool free stuff and saw some pretty interesting things! I can't wait for tomorrow when we get to head back! After the career show we headed to Conseco Field house for the Opening Session of Convention. The lazer light show was pretty awesome and the keynote speaker was really cool too! The speaker was Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel. He did a great job and really related to the FFA members in the audience!
After dinner and a quick trip to the hotel to change, we finished up the night at Lucas Oil Stadium at the Toby Keith concert! It was awesome because not only did he sing, but there were also a lot of fireworks and pyrotechnics!! We were in the 8th row too!! Some of us got up so close we could almost touch him. It was really fun dancing and singing along to all of our favorite Toby Keith songs!
Tomorrow the Agriscience fair participants will be presenting to the judges early in the morning and Todd and Jenny will walk across stage to recieve our 3 star chapter rating. We will also get to see the other FFA members from Tri-County who are coming down for the day to see the Career Show! We will also be going to Beef and Boards tomorrow evening.
Stay tuned for more updates of convention!
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