No Summer This Year

Our plan for yesterday before seeing the wind and getting a late start was to visit the Old Trail Town in Cody and the Buffalo Bill Historical Museums. We'll save those for another day. Possibly, we can do one of those today. It was windy and cold the entire day even though it was clear. The high temperature for the day was 59. We don't think there will be a summer this year. Anyway, we had an unexpected visit from my co-worker, Karen, who wanted to get a reading from me on how I feel about the job. There has been a high turnover in the front desk jobs as a result of the pace, pressure and long hours I described earlier. She wanted to make sure I wasn't going to get discouraged and quit as it appears that everybody is happy with the job I'm doing so far. It's good to hear that - especially since the main reason we left the last job was because we got no feedback, or only negative feedback.

During a short drive through town we took a shot of a famous landmark, the Sleeping Indian, which is below:

If you look closely, the highest point is his nose, and you can see what they call a "wart" on his chin to the left and below his nose.

We went to a great western wear and boot shop in town and spent a lot of time just walking around looking at everything. If we were 30 years younger and had the same figures we had then we probably would have bought a lot of stuff.

The employees at our Village get a 25% discount at the restaurant, QT's, that is part of our complex so we tried that for dinner before going to the Cody Nite Rodeo. Our dinner was nothing special - Josie had baby back ribs and I had their signature pot roast which wasn't so hot. The Rodeo was great, however. Every night between June and August, there is a Rodeo. The BIG Rodeo event though is the Cody Stampede Rodeo that will be held on July 1 -4.

The Rodeo was fun except that it was so cold and windy that we had to leave early because we didn't have heavy enough jackets. We did get some pictures of events they had while we were there, starting with the bronc riding:

And then the calf roping competition:


There were other events, such as the Calf Scramble for kids up to 12 years old. All the kids came down to the arena floor and the first three that could grab one of the ribbons that was tied to a calf's tail would win prizes. There were two calves, and probably 30 kids chasing after them. We will be buying a season pass to these nightly rodeos at a discounted price with our employee badges. They let us in for free last night since the place where we purchase these passes is in town, and not at the rodeo ticket booth. So, the fact we left early really didn't matter.

Today is our second and last day off so, hopefully, we will fill it with some fun things. Until tomorrow...