With most of the DeMartinis, we went to the rodeo tonight. I've decided I quite like the rodeo, once a year. It's exciting and funny, and feels oddly patriotic and like a completely different culture at the same time. The rodeo competitions are nail-bitingly intense and the athleticism of the competitors is impressive. We saw mutton busting (small children riding sheep), bare back bronco riding, saddled bronco riding, bull riding, barrel racing, steer roping, two-man cow roping, and my favorite wild cow milking, a truly wild activity where three man teams try to control a wild cow long enough to get a bit of milk in a cup. Guys were being dragged around the arena and stomped on by the cows. It was like watching a train wreck--both horrifying and mesmerizing. A rodeo clown did a Michael Jackson impersonation and dropped his pants to reveal a fake bare bum in his rendition of the moon walk. The rodeo queens were beautiful and their horses were even more so. We ate strawberries and cream, got to watch daredevil motorcycle riders, and finished off the night with fireworks set to patriotic music. The setting was beautiful, at the base of Mount Timpanogos, and it couldn't have been a more beautiful summer night. Here's to a different way of life and the joys to rodeo!
All of us who attended, less me (taking the picture) and Kent (late because he had scouts).
You can't really see Brick or Luke, and you can't see a friend of the Dudes or Ava's who came, too.
Yeah for the rodeo!
You can see Luke in this picture.
The view from our seats.
We sat right across from the chutes.
Selfies with the children.
3 boys above: Gehrig, Crew, and Griffin
4 girls below: Makenna, Blythe, Ava, and Alison
Christopher, Rowen, Tysen, and Lyla
Brandt, Luke, Sharae, and Collin
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