Halloween was a night to remember! I loved that I got to enjoy it all at the Grain Millers Harvest Showdown in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. It was filled with spooky scenes, and fun costumes. Along with that it was filled with fun adventures, and knights in shining armour! The night started with an amazing showing of skills, and horsemanship when I got to watch my first ever show of mounted shooting. It was an amazing sport to watch, and I can't wait for the day that I can try my hand at it. The trick of the game is to ride a pattern on horseback, and shoot all the balloons in the pattern using blanks. The sport is a young sport, and is just starting to take off. To participate on needs not only a horse, but a restricted firearms license. After that I got to see an excellent show from a couple of riders from the Fantastic 4 Trick Riding Team. They were dressed up in their Halloween best, and it was amazing. The final big event of the night was getting the chance to watch Full Metal Jousting, and it even hosted by the amazing man off the famous television show himself, Shane Adams! It was a very educational, along with entertaining night, of knight games. We got to learn all the training it takes it become a Knight. The knights we saw that day were a variety from Eastern Canada, and the United States. The knights were from the International Knights of Valour team. The knights chose their ladies of court that they fought for, and even gave "gold" [gold wrapped candy] to their court like the traditional knights. The games were very interesting to watch, and especially when I got to see a knight cut a watermelon close to the head of a random assistant. The jousting was also awesome, and I got to watch as a knight got de-horsed. All round it was amazing show. I fully suggest going out to see any jousting event! It is a once in a lifetime opporunity. Well done Grain Millers Harvest Showdown it was quite the 25th anniversary bash!
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