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Daddy of ‘em All.  Cheyenne, Wyoming.  Frontier Days.

After a four-year absence, I’m back folks.  America’s largest outdoor rodeo – & later tonite, country legend Tim McGraw.  Goin’ BIG – no regrets this summer season 😊

Cowboy’d up with Stephen, Saturday morn.  DIA flight from New Hampshire; hour-half highway north on I-25.  First out-of-state trek for my BIG FORD TRUCK.  Rodeo adventure, bang-on perfect.  Have I told y’all how much I LOVE my new truck?  HA!

Bronc buckin’, steer wrestlin’ & calf roping.  Missed the bulls this year, probably my  fave-absolute next to the buckin’ broncs.  An event which NEVER disappoints.

123rd CFD Rodeo – older than the state itself.  Dig the big-voice announcer, crowd of cowboy hats, parking lot of trucks & horse trailers.  My season.  Good to be back.

Cowboy up y’all.  Rodeo season – mmm, feels like summer.

Cheyenne Frontier Days 2019

Let’s just say, this wern’t my first rodeo – AND when talking ‘bout Cheyenne Frontier Days, won’t be my last either.

Because of my marathon schedule, attended Frontier Days on opening weekend this year (running San Fran next Sunday).  Crowds were down slightly…but only slightly – still “the Daddy of ‘em All”, still America’s largest outdoor rodeo.

Being my third year, have learned the drill – FOOD, then rodeo. 2013: bison burger topped with elk brats; 2014: elk burger plus a bite of Ash’s camel patty.  This year settled on rattlesnake bratwurst, an order of spiral fries – YUM! – & fresh squeezed lemonade (of course).  Frontier Days is as much about the FOOD as it is about buckin’ broncs 🙂

Bought a seat in Cheyenne’s new ‘South 40’ section.  Closer to entertainment (trick riders & pageant winners) but further from the real action (this year’s pics are not as sharp).  Live and learn.

Bronc buckin’, bull riding, steer wrestlin’ & calf roping – yep, LOVE this stuff.  Next year, tickets to both weekends 🙂

Finished the day in Indian Village; watched a Native American hoop dance.  Sharing this clip should be less controversial than last year’s calf roping memento.  LOL>  LOVE native music – another FAAANNNTASTIC day!

Native American Hoop Dance

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! 

Cheyenne Frontier Days 2014