Western Speak

Justin McKee, the CFD rodeo announcer, had some real Western doozies during the week. His Western sayings, which I'd never heard the likes of before, added some real flavor to each of the events. He was gone for a couple days and a new announcer stepped in, but he just wasn't the same. Thank heavens Justin was back for Finals Sunday!

Here is my compilation of Justin McKeeisms from the week:

"That bull bucked him off faster than the banker could tell me no!"

"That bull/bronc shucked him like a cob of corn!"

"Well, that bull/bronc yanked the yee-haw right out of him!"

"He stuck to that bull like sorghum on the side of a biscuit!"

"That bronc is wilder than Wyoming mountain scenery!"

"That calf was runnin' like a fugitive! He was gettin' some gone!"

"That cowboy brought him down like the steer said somethin' 'bout his mama!"

"That calf was runnin' like it had race horse feet!"

"When he gets to goin' he looks like a haybayler with a jet engine!"

"You could have driven a Dodge 4500 Ram truck under that horse!"

And my favorite, which made everyone look at eachother and ask, "What the...?"

"That bull's got more moves than a maggot in hot grease!"

WHAT?

Last Day at the Arena

Here are some pictures from Finals Sunday.

A really stubborn bull...



Really stubborn. He did the same thing RIGHT at the gate too.



The Indian Village. They had really cool jewelry - I got a ring - and lots of performances like traditional dances.

A flute performance in the Indian Village...

At the end of the rodeo each day there is a wild horse race. Teams of cowboys try to ride the horse around a track. First one across the line wins the purse. It is crazy and hilarious!

More wild horse taming...

Ride 'em!

We have a winner!

And a second place finisher...

Doo Doo Doo...

Lookin' out my front door.

Staging area for the Frontier Days parade...

Friday Fave (Even Though It's Saturday)

It was hard to choose, but this is one of my favorite pictures so far this week.

The bullfighter in blue is Cpt. Jeremy Sparks, who is in the U.S. Air Force. The other fighter in red is from Australia. I love hearing him talk...

Rodeo Update

I haven't had a chance to log on the past couple of days, so here are some pictures to get you caught up.

On Wednesday it poured. I was completely unprepared and got absolutely drenched. The rain made for some exciting rodeo though!

The swimming hole, I mean, arena...

From behind the chutes (where I ducked for a while to wait it out)...

A steer wrestler in the mud...

This looks worse than what it was. The rider got right up and he wasn't hit by the horse...

My drenched boots and pants. I took this after I ran for shelter to the Press Deck...

The next set of pictures are from Thursday. It was Tough Enough to Wear Pink day in support of cancer awareness. A certain amount of the ticket sales that day went to Susan B. Komen and a lot of the cowboys were in pink. It was pretty cool.

A roper in action...

This was a very stubborn bull that took almost every PickUp Man to get out of the arena. Look how he's dug in!

A mess of pink clad cowboys...

After the rodeo my team screwed around taking pictures with the clown's barrel...