We drove to Big Timber yesterday, Saturday May 15th to go to the local rodeo and it was a ball.
This was all bull-riding competion with cowboys from Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota and the province of Alberta. These cowboys are professionals in the lower circuit. All trying to get to the big time rodeo circuit.
When we arrived it cost $8.00 a person and we got a good seat right next to the release slots. The stadium was old, but functional, and there was a refresment stand run by the 4H and also a "beer garden" and they asked you not to bring in coolers with your own beer.
The competion was split into two halfs and a final. There were 20 riders in each half. The winner won $6,500 and a new saddle.
The first half, only 4 of the 20 riders stayed on the bulls for 8 seconds which is the minimum amount of time to count the ride.There were cowboys flying everywere. We were looking for 10 riders for the final and so the second half would have to have at least the other 6 for the final.
The second half 7 of the 20 riders rode the 8 seconds and got a score from the judges. Now we had the 10 riders into the final.
After finishing my 5th Coors Lite, the final started and these were the biggest, meanest bulls that had been saved back and it was really good. Several of the cowboys were local and the crowd was quite partial to them . We finally got a winner. We really enjoyed the rodeo and trying to figure out how to get to another one, next week it is in Helena, Montana which is not too far from Glacier Park where we are headed.
After the rodeo the small town celebrated and had a BBQ at the American Legion and a good country band from Bozeman that was really good. Jan and I only danced once but had a ball looking at the cowboys and girls just having a ball. We did not get home until after midnight
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