Today is rather cool and we are going to the local rodeo this afternoon. This was a first for Tyler and Noah. We had to explain to the boys why the bulls do not like the cowboys riding them and why they kick so hard to get that strap off.
They had bull rides for the younger crowd who hope to grow up to be bull riders. Of course, their bulls were much younger, therefore the boys didn't get thrown quite so far. There were even girls riding the young bulls.
At one point they called all children between the ages of 3 and 8 to go out into the bull ring with a really young bull. The idea was for one of the children to just touch the baby bull. But the little bull kept running away; so all of the kids received a prize.
There were also races where a teenage girl riding a horse would pull a younger child behind her on a piece of cowhide. These races were done three days in a row and the results tallied and added together. Today is the final run and the best score wins.
The teenage girls also performed in another race where they had to touch a young bull with a stick that had a sponge attached to the end. On this sponge was a paint of some sort so you could see exactly where she hit the bull. The idea was to do this in the shortest time possible and she had to touch the bull behind its neck. They all received points for this and it was tallied along with the 2 previous days.
Check out the pictures we took. We don't have very many because a moving bull or horse is hard to focus on.
It started raining so we went to the local store and bought huge ice cream cones and went back to the RV to watch TV.
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