Llamafest!

We went to Llamafest in Spanish Fork, Utah last weekend. It was quite the fun adventure. There were tons of llamas everywhere. They had a llama show, where they judged the llamas like dogs in a dog show. They also had a llama obstacle course, however, the llamas did not seem nearly as happy to run through the course as the dogs I have seen doing similar courses. They often had to be dragged.



Here we are with one llama at the end of the day. I didn't learn its name. I am also very squinty in the picture; I was feeling a little under the weather. I couldn't leave without visiting the llamas though! They were the whole reason for the trip.

The funniest thing to watch was the llamas getting really excited to meet other llamas. As soon as new llamas showed up, they would all run over to greet them. They don't seem to care about people all too much, but when it comes to other llamas, they were very social.





We picked up this lovely llama Christmas ornament. I am sure it will look beautiful on the tree!












We watched one llama show while we were there, which was for the young, male llama category. The llama who won was named "Chancho." I had picked up this information earlier on during the show, so when they announced the winner by number, I exclaimed, "It's Chancho!" There were some echos around me of "Chancho," and soon the announcer also stated the llama's name. Somehow, P&AF didn't know that they had announced the name earlier in the show. He thought that I had randomly made up a name for the llama, and that then the entire show heard me declare, "It's Chancho," and subsequently they all started calling him "Chancho" too. He was nearly hysterical until I managed to clear up the situation and explain that "Chancho" was really the llama's name. It would have been pretty funny if it had all played out the way he thought it did.