Cheyenne Frontier Days
 2012

Cheyenne Rodeo

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Cheyenne Frontier Days – Rodeo Day

We left for Frontier Park at 9 a.m. and parked as a group near the Old West Museum. We browsed in the gift shop and then took the 10:00 a.m. group tour called "Behind the Chutes." We were led by a "cowgirl" on horseback and took a walking tour to see the livestock used for the various events and the chutes that the bulls and broncs start from. Afterwards, we checked out the vendors in the Gulch area and eventually made it to our reserved seats in the grandstands for the rodeo events. There were pre-rodeo events including small children on horseback doing barrel-racing, the flags of the sponsors paraded by a women's horseback drill team, the intro of Miss Rodeo and her Lady in Waiting (next year's Miss Rodeo.) About 1 p.m. they started the rodeo events – bull riding, bareback bronc riding, steer wrestling, bronc riding with saddle, steer roping, team roping, women's barrel racing, and the wild horse race. Instead of seeing all of one event, they interspersed them so that there was more variety. Some of the events showed that the guys were much tougher than we would have thought based on televised rodeo. For instance, in steer wresting, the guys are huge, 200+ pounds, as they throw themselves off their horses onto the steer and then try to flip it over. The bronc riders, on the other hand, are 5'3"-5'6". The wild horse race finale was hilarious. There were 11 teams of 3, each given a wild horse, which they had to hold, saddle and ride around the track in under 4 minutes. Nobody won as horses threw their riders and went the wrong direction. Two participants left on stretchers.

For dinner, people did their own thing. Doug and Marilyn had made reservations at the Little Bear Inn and 10 did that, with Doug ordering their "world famous" deep-fried lobster tail. The Venns stayed in and ordered pizza. The McIntoshes and the Weeks stayed at Frontier Park and watched 3 more hours of professional bull riding. The Keefers and Vance and Susan had an early, light dinner.

It was another evening of lightning shows.