Thursday, August 5, 2010

Cheyenne WY Rodeo


So it's called "Daddy of 'em all"!!!
The city of Cheyenne in Wyoming holds the world's largest out door rodeo.
The event last a total of 10 days.  The festivities include parade, gun show,  old western town and even an Indian Village. 

This parade had the most horses than we have ever seen in one place.  There was horse after horse, the cities "Misses" even ride horses.  After seeing this parade I think the states population of horses is more than it's human population.




This horse had toe polish on.  The polish even matched it's leg warmers.
:-)


So with all the horses, someone has to clean up the poooo.
So this parade shows off the power of their street sweeper.


And you can't forget the tractors.  They had one from each year that tractors were made.  I only posted these two.  A John Deere for Pa and a Pink John Deere for Mawmaw.


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Here we are at the gun show! Heston got caught!!

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So, you know how Georgia has painted bulldogs all over the city... and Anderson has painted fish.... well Cheyenne has painted boots.




Heston Bull riding! Cowboy want-a-be!!
Cheyenne has lots of statues.  Here Bryson is with a buck'in horse. 
The bull rider statue is in memory of Lane Frost.  Watch the movie '8 seconds'.   Lane was killed here at Cheyenne when he was poked in the back by a bull. Just a note, he stayed on his 8 seconds.


Here we are down on the ring.  We were able to take a tour of the chutes, where we got up close to the bulls, horses and cowboys.
Love the Indians. 

Here the boys pose with bull riders and a horse.

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Yea !! The rodeo !!!


The boys get to see and get an autograph from the bull rider winner of the Cheyenne Rodeo, Wesley Silcox. 


We had a great weekend in Cheyenne WY.  It was a cowboy kinda weekend.
We saw lots of horses, boots, cowboy hats and everyone in
Cheyenne wears BIG belt buckles.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Snow in Summer!

A Day in the Mountains

One of our neighbors suggested we take a drive up to LoveLand Pass. So we headed out. After arriving on the Mountain top I realized I left my camera card back at home.  So the following pictures were all taken with my IPhone.    We saw some amazing sites.  I hate it that I did not have my good camera.

After a short hike up a mountain we found SNOW !!
Yes, snow.

Bryson makes a snowman.


Here we are on top of the Mountain.  This was an amazing site.
We could see for miles and miles.  We could even see several of the ski resorts from way up here.


This will be the spot for a family picture maybe even our Christmas Picture.



After our mountain hiking we took a drive over to several of the ski resorts. 
They were so cool.  Here Bryson is riding one of the lifts.


This is the Keystone Ski Resort .




Great water fall !



We ended our day at Winter Park.  Winter Park is another ski resort. 
We kinda want to stay to snow ski.  That would be fun!!