Sisters Rodeo - Slack

Sisters Rodeo was last week...

It's a great rodeo, but most often sold out, very hot and packed with people... It occured to me that they probably would be having slack on Thursday or Friday during the day and thought that might be a good thing to take the grand kids to and I knew Ansel would enjoy it. Going to watch slack would give the kids a dose of rodeo exposure without being tied to a cramped hot bleacher seat with who knows sitting beside us from start to finish... (meaning that seat mates might not appreciate a potentially wiggly, whiny, poopy two year old) so we drove up there, and sure enough, slack was going and seating for slack was free. Slack- ? my best explanation is that there are many more entries into a rodeo contest than you see at the paid performance. Rodeo planners have figured it out over the years that, you can have X-number of entries in X-number of classes that folks will enjoy sitting and watching for so long. So the runover entries do their runs during "slack" which preceeds the paid performance and then their scores and times are part of the overall rodeo. Tage and Ansel riveted to the bull dogging

Tage who turns two years old Friday June 20, was totally facinated with every event and every entry... his attention never wandered, he never stopped watching, and he wasn't ready to leave when I was. I think the format, of having the seats to ourselves and not dealing with the masses of people was really condusive to his having such a good time.
Taylor cheers and moans for the barrel racers. She figured out real fast which riders had the good times, and that when the barrel got knocked over it wasn't a good thing and she cheered accordingly.

We didn't really have the whole place to ourselves... there were lots of folks watching, they just happened to be sitting to our right, and across the arena. We got to see Joe Beaver (an 8 time World Champion) have a great Calf Roping run during the slack. He ended up 3rd.