Cheyenne Rodeo the "Daddy of 'em all"

Dean and I went with our friends Justin and Sara Andersen to Cheyenne in July. Our first stop was the Prison in Laramie. It was really neat, I have a small fetish with prison living and Dean has one with Butch Cassidy so we both really enjoyed this stop. 

They like to make a really big deal about Cheyenne being "the best rodeo" and it being the "daddy of 'em all" and I wouldn't have believed it but after going I can really say it is an AWESOME rodeo. The stock is all fresh and the barrier is 30 feet longer than an average PRCA rodeo and it makes for a really wild time. I didn't take this picture but it illustrates perfectly how wild it is.

The rodeos are 4 hours long every day for 14 days. They go really fast and are fun to watch. They have lots of stuff going on between runs, trick riders, dinner bell races, and my favorite the wild horse race. It was insane, they bring out 10 horses that have never been handled and a team of three guys have to saddle and ride the horse all the way around the track, it was intense.

I was a little disappointed that besides the rodeo there wasn't a lot going on. They had a lot of vendors and an old pioneer village but you could have looked at it all in a day. We went to two concerts, Brad Paisley and Tim McGraw. Dean and I aren't really into concerts but they were really entertaining and I was glad we went.

Lane Frost memorial

Friday morning they had an amazing all horse parade. A bunch of stores had chairs sitting on the side walk that you could rent for $5 so we outsmarted them and sat on the curb. 

It was the only parade that I have ever seen and probably will ever see that started at 9 am and had a float full of obvious drunk people. There was more beer consumed in that town than I could ever comprehend in those 14 days. 

This is the only picture I got of any horses in the parade. They did have some awesome entries but I just wanted Josie to see this horse dressed up as a fairy.

They had a little indian village where we watched some dancing and bought Josie some jewelry. 

Addy was so nice to watch the kids. They had so much fun at her house. And she sent me lots of pictures so I could see all the fun stuff they got to do! She was brave and took them ALL swimming and did lots of crafts.