Tough Enough to Wear Pink
June 11th, attended the 93rd Annual 2011 Livermore Rodeo, aka World's Fastest. It was also breast cancer awareness day in which the survivors had their own seating area and a lot of people in the rodeo were wearing pink. We had a ton of fun and for future reference, if you want to walk the town of Livermore I wouldn't go the second weekend of June. We started off our day by going to the Bass Pro Shop in Menteca. I had gone earlier that week to walk around and Chris wanted to see it as well. It was pretty cool, I had never been in a Bass Pro Shop before this one and I would have to say that it is like a Cabela's but more of a fishing emphasis.
We then headed over to Livermore. The plan was to walk around town, get something to eat, and then head over to the rodeo. However once arriving in town those plans quickly changed, it was so busy and traffic was really bad. We walked around a little bit and decided to get out of that whole situation and just hope we run into a food place on the way to the rodeo, which we did. We got lunch to go at Mr. Pickles, which is a sandwich shop that is big in California and really good! Once getting our lunch we headed over to the rodeo and ate our lunch before heading in. At least we got a really good parking spot.
The rodeo had the usual events such as: Bronc riding, saddle bronc riding, roping tie-down, team roping, steer wrestling, barrel racing, and of course bull riding! However their was one event that we had never seen before and it was pretty cool! That was the Wild Cow Milking. The day we went their was the first girl ever to compete in the wild cow milking at the Livermore Rodeo and she kicked every ones butt! Here is a link to the video of the wild cow milking that I found on youtube. This one wasn't the day that we went, but the same contest a few days before in Livermore.
Also for the intermission they had Tomas Garcilazo. Tomas is a Charro that has excellent horsemanship and roping abilities. It was really cool to watch the tricks that he did with the rope, and his horse was absolutely beautiful! Tomas has toured the world doing La Charreria performances. Here is a link of a video that someone put together on youtube of the same day that we went. It is short with less than four minutes long and includes a bit of everything. It was a great rodeo and we had a lot of fun.
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