The View from 58-inches High

After a rotten weekend of racing I was really excited to make up for it with the Wimberley Memorial Day rodeo. We had box seats for two days. The first day was Sunday. I had to race back from Dallas to get back in time for dinner before the rodeo. Todd, Benjamin, Sree, Cuvee, and Sam joined us. As we were leaving it started to rain hard but the weather held and the rodeo was great.

The real highlight was the next night though. Kate, Holly, Andrew, the kids, and Jen joined us. None of them had ever been to a rodeo like this one. We bought funnel cake and fresh made potato chips. The potato chips were made with a drill that turned the potato into a razor blade. You can’t make this up.

I was just waiting for the adult calf scramble; which I talked Kate into doing it with me. It really only took telling her it was a competitive event to get her to join.  We were nuts trying to get one of the 6-ribbons. We were yelling commands at each other making sure we had all avenues cornered. It was the very last flag but Kate cornered it and sent it right my way. As we were walking back up, somebody congratulated me on getting the ribbon. Without missing a beat, Kate replies “Thanks”. Then she’s all “Ohh, I kind of took one for the team there!”.

Maple and Waylon decided they had to do the children’s calf scramble after watching us. Maple ended up having to pee just before and missed the whole thing. When I got back down to Holly, all the other kids were coming back out; but not Waylon. When he finally came out and we got back to the seats everybody was laughing. It appears Waylon was so intent on getting a ribbon that he found himself one.

It was really nice to do something that wasn’t associated with cycling. We laughed so hard we cried and I can’t wait for next year.