Pendleton Round-up

Duane is being such a good sport and we are going to Round-up this year.  He believes that you should do it about every 15 years (if you have to)  A true Pendletonian gets out of town during this event. 

So … I had to get into the spirit of the week by buying a pair of boots.  The moment I say these I knew I had to get them.  These are for Carol and to support breast cancer awareness.  cool huh!

They don’t look like it but they are pink.

Then we went to the dress up parade.  Typical parade (I love parades !) I have always loved to see the courts from the different rodeos.  Notice the flowers on the roundup court this year and the bead work on the Happy Canyon princesses were amazing. 

This was a new thing….you go out in the street and lay down and draw a circle around you.  You win if a horse poops in your circle. 

The best part of the parade was a mounted band. They are playing instruments (including a big bass drum) while riding a horse.  The horses walk along without the rider holding the reins and they don’t even flinch at the loud music.  Pretty cool.

R-up Mounted Band

We have gone to a couple of days of slack.  This is when all the preliminary timing and disqualifing happens.  There can be 75-108 participants in each events.  It is fun to watch the no name eastern oregon kid run the events right before a world champion like Trevor Brazille or Tuff Cooper.

We could only image the amount of money tied to the fences.  Some horses can cost 300,000 and all the saddles etc.  But our favorite picture was the texting cowboys.

We have also gone to the PBR bull riding that is monday and tues nights before the round-up really starts.  I love bull riding so it was good.  Flint Rasmussen is a rodeo clown that really makes it fun.  He’s always dancing or doing something funny.  Not many pictures turned out from the nose bleed section.  This is the light show before and the glowing ‘Let’er Buck’ on the ground. (Always a cowboy hat right in your way )

We still have the Main street show tonight and the cowboys breakfast and then we have tickets for Saturday of Round-up.  Duane’s brother, sister and families are joining us for Saturday.  Fun Times !!  The thing I’m really looking forward to is “Fry Bread’ (elephant ear, scone or whatever you want to call it)  A guy in our ward, his mother makes it and it is soooo good.  (A, J, Lin, K..you didn’t read this.  I will stop eating after r-up)