Pikes Peak or Bust!

Nope, we still haven't made it to the Peak yet.  That is the title of the Rodeo that is in Colorado Springs every year.  This year happened to be the 70th Annual Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (http://www.coloradospringsrodeo.com/).  What an event.  It was crazy cool, but I didn't really fit in wearing my flip flops and cowboy hatless head.  Kelley just came up with the idea out of the blue.  We had gone to this restaurant "A Second Cup" (http://www.asecondcup.net/ - which has great food.  Come and visit and we will take you there) and had finished dinner about 6:30 on a Saturday night and were looking for something fun  to do. We drive out to the place and the line is terribly long for tickets, but just as we get in line they start offering $5 standing room only tickets.  Score!  Though, I'm still thinking we aren't going to be able to see anything because standing room only seats are in the back or at the very top of the nose bleed section.  Boy was I wrong.  We had the best seats in the house....well, not seats, but places to stand anyway.

This was the view of the entire arena.  Beautiful.

Here's a close up of the action right at the start of the roping.  We were less than 10 feet away from these guys.

Apparently the cows thought we stunk too.