Another high point was visiting the Brinton Art Museum with its fabulous collection of western art. We also got to see a parade featuring local Native Americans from the Crow tribe decked out in all of their finery.
Annabel and I were especially grateful for Denise and Sofia's friendship. It was a great time filled with lots of laughter.
One of the things that we most looked forward to doing when we moved to Sheridan was going to the fabled Sheridan Rodeo. This popular event was canceled last year due to COVID, so it was with great anticipation that we attended this year's children's night with friends. The York family came to visit us from Maine, and they were also more than a little excited to watch the games.
First we got to watch the Indian horse racing event, which involved various teams riding around the track 3 times. At the end of each lap one team member would jump off and another would jump on and run bareback around the arena. There was some pretty impressive riding, let me tell you!
There were trick riding shows and the standard junk food to be enjoyed, and we also watched the bucking bronco, barrel racing and calf roping events. But the main event was saved for the end - the bull riding competition.
Only 3 of the riders actually made it to the 8 second mark that night, but all of the rides were pretty crazy. Everyone attending agreed - it sure was great to be back in the proverbial saddle!
I haven't been tent camping since I spent a week on Assateague Island with my cultural anthropology class in college. Jordan has been bugging me to camp up in the mountains with him for years now, and I finally agreed after a desperate 8:30pm Monday evening plea. The kids are at an adventure camp this week, so we were flexible. As soon as Jordan finished work on Tuesday afternoon, we packed up the truck for the 90 minute drive. One 3 mile hike later, we were at camp.
After a fairly restless night, Jordan and I got up early to do some hiking in this amazingly beautiful place.
During our walk we came across some old camps, one of which had this for a sitting log.
To our immense pleasure we crossed paths with another group of over 300 elk on our hike out. Several cow elk brought up the rear herding a bunch of calves along. The moms and babies were bugling back and forth, which made for a sound that we'll not soon forget!
We have officially moved into our new home, and it's been a few weeks of non-stop unpacking, touch-ups, and continued work. Oh, and we've spent hours fixing up our old place and making a 24 hour roundtrip drive to Washington for a 2 day visit with Jordan's folks. The house is FABULOUS, but I'm not going to post any more pics until I've decorated and cleaned up a bit. In the interim, however, we'll show you some sights from our walks around the neighborhood.
