The Rodeo

I've lived in Tucson for kindergarten through 12th grade, and ever since I graduated from BYU and I've never been to the rodeo. Even though every year growing up we got two days of Rodeo Vacation every February we never made it down to watch it. This year I decided we'd go check it out. Monday and Tuesday are qualifying days for the real competitions that take place Thurs.-Sun. so the tickets are cheap and the kids get in free, so last Monday we gathered some friends and headed out to see the rodeo.

 We tried sitting in the bleachers but after 5 minutes we were roasting in the hot Tucson February sun. So we went to the shaded platform next to the announcer's box to watch. There were no chairs or benches, but we didn't care much. We watched some team roping for a while.

The kids watched a little.

But most of the time they spent at the back of the platform looking at the horses that were waiting for their turns in little corrals.

Apparently the horses standing there not moving were more exciting than the ones running around the arena with cowboys on their backs chasing down cows.
When the kids were reaching their boredom limit they switched up events and went to steer wrestling, which was very cool to watch. But some of the kids were already at their limit and ready to leave, much to Rachel's dismay. She was really enjoying watching them, but only got to see about 5 before we had to pull her away to go with everyone else.
Overall the rodeo was fun enough for a $5 admission and I'm glad we went once. It probably would be fun to go back and see the junior rodeo and mutton busting sometime, but those are on the full admission days, and $20ish bucks a person just doesn't sound all that appealing.