Ever since we got out to Colorado my mom has wanted to go to a rodeo. Today we went to the Greeley Stampede – Giddyup!
We go to Greeley about noon and as we expected, it was much like a county fair. Corn Dogs, mean-on-a-stick, lemonade from the food family, and a ferris wheel, tilt-a-whirl and midway from the carnival family. Before we could try any of the food, Tara and mom had to buy cowboy hats. Once the hats were firmly strapped on their heads, we followed our noses. Having not eaten much all day – we sampled plenty of skewered meat. I had a couple of corndogs, mom had steak-on-a-stick and Tara had pork-on-a-stick. It was delicious.
Once we had a full stomach, we headed over to the stadium. The rodeo started at about 1:30PM and it was a fast moving event – much faster than I expected. There were several different events culminated by the Bull Ride. I think we all came away from the rodeo extremely impressed by the talent of the buck-ing cowboys, but weren’t terribly pleased with the treatment of the cattle in the roping events. I guess it’s a good thing PETA wasn’t there – some of the handling of the livestock was non-sensical in my opinion.
As soon as the cowboys were done riding the bulls, some daredevil/BMX riders took to the air and put on a spectacular show of gravity defying leaps. Those guys were definitely insane!
We couldn’t leave the grounds without first getting our funnel cake on – to heck with the diet! They were delightful in every sense of the imagination. A pretty good day all around. Sidenote: the organizers of the stampede are not as photo friendly as many events. Several times we heard that one could take as many photos as they want, but public display of said photos was prohibitted. With that in mind, no Flickr photos from today. Instead I created a special gallery that will probably fly under the rader a lot more than Flickr would.
I’m definitely glad we went – it was a LOT of fun. I’m not sure I would go again though because as I was processing over 1000 photos from the day, I really noticed how poorly some of the animals were treated.
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