summer rodeo

FOURTH OF JULY - BELLE FOURCE
the rodeo arena is quite new but it is a little wide so since i didn't have a big expensive digital with big zoom the horse is a little far away. they had professional big time buckers and bulls which the local cowboys complained about. but i liked the show. the bulls were awesome. before the rodeo there is a parade with a little bit of everything. people grab seats early in the morning along the route. the cowboy band marches by the first time, with the older old members on the bed of a semi, but the band goes by two more times with all the members on the semi. they play for the rodeo too. and they are pretty good.














there are semis all polished in the parade, army trucks and stuff, lots of horses, some tractors, rodeo queens and princesses, little kids, more horses, some mules, politicans, clowns, high school class reunions, water guns, lots of candy being thrown, and fire trucks. and probably more. whew! great parade.