Yup, to welcome in the Denver Stock Show, they shut down 17th Street downtown and herd some longhorns down the city streets. It was really quite a funny site. Here are the longhorns and cowboys with all us city folk (including a ton of people who work downtown who ran down to the street level to watch them go by) looking on. It was worth it!We had a great view - they turned the corner right in front of us and in front of the Brown Palace (where Uncle Mike happens to work). Here they come!
The girls wait to see the "moos" and "neighs"
The crew: my friend Heidi with her little son Oliver in her sling and Aubry in the stroller, my friend Sarah with her daughter Piper on her back and Kevin. Notice that Heidi is wearing only a t-shirt. It was about 55 today, although it was a bit colder in the shade. I like how she has Aubry totally wrapped up!
More parade pics!
This brought on a discussion about how uncomfortable it would have been to ride across the country in a stagecoach. No shocks on those puppies! The grand marshall of the parade is standing up top in the red, white and blue shirt.
Old tractor. Older farmer driving it.
Me n' Violet waiting for the parade to start.
This past weekend Jon and I went with Heidi (above) and her husband Bryant to the Stock Show to see Freestyle Reining (for you non-horse people, it's horses being ridden to music - they do spins and sliding stops which is very fun to watch). We all loved walking up top over the actual stockyards to get to the Event's Center. There were SO MANY COWS!! And some of the bulls were just so huge they looked like elephants!
One of the reiners doing a sliding stop
I am going to take Violet back sometime this week - they have a ton of animals and I think she'll love it! Yay for Denver!
1 comment:
nice post..
looks like you guys enjoyed the show..love watching Freestyle Reining they were fun to watch..
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