The Lewis Family made it out to the annual VFW Outdoor Rodeo in Wimberley, TX! This was the 65th annual rodeo and at one time in its history was the largest outdoor rodeo in the world. On this evening the grandstands were packed and the crowd even included 19 people from Belgium who come every year.
This was our first trip to this rodeo (though, no, it was not our first rodeo). We had fun.
Kate probably had the best time out of all of us. She participated in Mutton Bustin' and rode a mechanical bull. (I have pictures on my phone and need to figure out how to get them on here).
Mutton Bustin was awesome. As you know from my blog it has been raining down here for a while. The outdoor rodeo was a muddy mess. The kids were trodding out to the chute to ride the lambs and everyone was losing boots and shoes in the deep, deep mud. Kate decided to ditch her boots altogether and ride the lamb in her socks. She hopped up on her lamb, grabbed the neck and held on tight for a good, oh, 7 or 8 feet and plopped off face first in the mud. She thoroughly enjoyed this. She was pretty sure she won the muddiest award.
We washed her off with the hose behind the well house (sidebar: I love my bucolic life -- end sidebar), we grabbed her a change of clothes from the car, and we were off to enjoy the rest of the rodeo.
It didn't take long for the kids, and the hubby, to spot the mechanical bull. Kate and Jesse dutifully got in line as I did a little rodeo-ing of my own keeping Andy penned in. Both Kate and Jesse rode the bull and both did great. Again -- pictures are on the phone.
We took in about a half hour or so of the rodeo which included a very beautiful presentation of the colors, bronc riding, steer wrestling, and a calf scramble. Andy got tuckered out so we headed home a little early this year. Looking forward to making this an annual Lewis tradition.
Since I don't have pictures to post yet, here's a link to the webpage for the rodeo.
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