Day 8 - Part 2 - And beyond!

As I was saying, we really did think our day was pretty much over. We even entertained ourselves in a peanut butter and Oregon blackberry jelly sandwich competition:




April



Sean

In my own professional opinion I'd like to point out that Sean cheated because he used celery - but we'll let you be the judge of which one of us is more delusional..

Oh right - Wyoming:



Just on the other side of this tunnel is Cody, Wyoming known as the birthpace of Jackson Pollock. But before Pollock was Buffalo Bill - he created this town, and actually is the reason for the tourism (sorry Pollock).

With flashing lights and big billboards, we read "Rodeo!"
We followed like bugs in a big blue zapper.
Coincidentally it started 20minutes after we got there (they had us tourists down)
Yeay! My first rodeo!
Sean got me a souvineer program too :)




This is my friend Pete. He says hi



We saw all kinds of events - bareback riding, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping, team roping, barrel racing, and of course bull riding, all with both mens and womens divisions. They even had a 12 & under bull riding event!! Those little boys were riding full grown bulls!




Thanks Buffalo Bill Cody Stampede! That was so much fun!



Hmm, what for dinner? Oh, how about a western bar/steak house?!



They even had a live band and line dancing (reminds me of home)


Look Robin - it's "Brown Eyed Girl" country style!

Though we didn't have Steaks, we did go for the burgers. Leave it to Sean to take it one step further and eat our friends - elk and buffalo!

On our way out we saw a painting of Sitting Bull:



This image was a reminder of the dilly dallying we did & our distance to the next location - the crazy horse monument - 6 hours away in South Dakota...
Here's to another long night of driving!

-- Posted from April's phone