Started the tradition last year – end of July, Cheyenne Frontier Days.
This year I brought along my housemates Ash & Tom. It was an entire weekend of sharing firsts – Ash & Tom’s first 14er on Saturday, today their first rodeo (certainly their first Wyoming rodeo).
Hit the food court hard – spiral fries, elk burger & fresh squeezed lemonade – what’s not to love? Ash tried camel burger, Tom went with rattlesnake bratwurst. And the winner was? Tom. We’re all going bratwurst in 2015….tasty.
Rodeo was in full swing by the time we finished stuffing our insides.
M Stand tickets this year – Chute 9 view, but tough locating 3 seats together on Finals Days. Missed the bulls but still plenty of rodeo left – buckin’ broncos, steer wrestling & roping, ladies barrel racing, and calf roping.
Folks were packing up early (last day of the Rodeo) so missed a few favourites like the Chuckwagon Cutoff but still came back with a couple new cowboy-isms from our Oklahoma-based announcer:
2014
- More fun than taking your mother-in-law to the airport
- He’s taken to him like hopping to Peter Cottontail
2013
- There’s a guy not afraid to shake loose and shake his boots
- He stuck to him like spots on an Appaloosa horse
- More moves than my city cousin peeing on an electric fence
- He stepped off that broncing horse like he was stepping out of a barber shop
- That lasted as long as a Hollywood husband
- He rodeos in the summer time (‘rodeo’ used as a verb)
Finished the day with red velvet funnel cake. Great idea Ash. Dee’ lish 🙂
I’ll say it again — Next life, I’m coming back as a Cowboy!
- red velvet funnel cake – YUM!
- spiral fries
- Cheyenne’s infamous Chute 9
- steer wrestling
Cheyenne Frontier Days 2014
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