We checked out the small town festival, parade and all. The local Mexican Restaurant had a large contingent on horseback showing off some pretty fancy footwork (the horses that is).  There was some slightly unusual fun food, a spicy bratwurst and butterscotch pecan pie.  Games were unique too.  The Running of the Balls – for a donation you get a colored and numbered ping pong ball.  At the appointed hour the whole lot of them is dumped out at the top of a hilly street with a hay bale funnel at the bottom.  First one through the funnel wins.  Cow patty bingo – buy a square on the grid painted on a parking lot.  They let Bessie loose to wander the lot and it she plops on your square you win.  There was frog jumping too – they even published which retention ponds in town might yield competitors.  Nothing fancy but lots of fun.