Lately all my journal titles are in all caps...but oh well...
The rodeo was so FREAKING amazing!! I haven't been to a rodeo since I was little, and it was awesome. AWESOME. The drive to Prescott was only two hours, and we rocked out to country the whole way so it went fast (and besides, I LOVE driving). Prescott isn't quite as amazing as the Colorado mountains (will I ever stop comparing everything to Colorado...? XD) but it was a helluva lot prettier than Phoenix, and better weather. Except for the rain. About halfway through the rodeo, just in time for the bull riders, it started raining BUCKETS, and I don't mean just a little bit of rain, I mean monsoon go-build-an-ark kind of rain. What cracked me up is that not one single person left; they just moved up in the stands and sat right through it (the stands were covered). Rodeo fans are dedicated. I felt bad for the bull riders that fell off, which is pretty much all of them, because they landed in six inches of mud._0: The poor little rodeo cowboy had to sit out there in his barrel getting rained on, he looked half-drowned. It slowed down the barrel racers, too, with the ground all slippery, but they still went too fast for my pathetic camera.
Speaking of that stupid camera, I tried to take pictures, but I think every picture is blurry; the rodeo was at night, and my lame-ass camera can't do night and movement at the same time. It doesn't help that even in the best of conditions I have the photography skills of a five year old, but thankfully my friend had a better camera and got some really good pictures. I gave up after the bucking broncos; they move so fast, and it's over so quickly that it's almost impossible to get a decent picture. The only thing I did get was a fairly decent picture of the Dr. Pepper horse. Between every event two horses would ride around the arena with a Coca Cola flag and a Dr. Pepper flag.
There had trick riders too, and that's just...ridiculously amazing and stupidly dangerous. :0 I can't believe how dangerous it is - they do the craziest things, hanging off the horse, standing on it, jumping around, swinging on its neck and whatnot, all while it's racing around the arena. I was sure somebody was going to get trampled, but it was amazing! Rodeos are so absurdly dangerous - an ambulance and a helicopter were both next to the arena - but so very very awesome. 8D
I had to wake up at 5 am the next morning to get my friend back for work at 8, but it was so worth it. I am SO going next year for fourth of July. That was most definitely the highlight of my summer, and of the last three or four summers. It helps that my aunt gave me money to pay for everything so I didn't have to spend a dime.