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The Grand Finale of our trip was a night at The Snake River Stampede.  It was a surprise for the boys.  Having never been to a rodeo they weren't quite sure what to expect.  Colin, who loves horses (especially "buckin' broncos"),  has seen videos and read books about cowboys but hadn't seen anything like this in real life.  And when you ask him what he wants to be when he grows up he'll say a "horse rider". 

Colin spent the entire night with an awe struck grin on his face and yipped and hollered at all the right times.  Toward the end of the night Colin was even more convinced that "horse rider" was his life's calling.  Seth decided that when he grows up he wants to be a clown.  We're all blessed with certain gifts I suppose. 

Showing up the proper technique for riding a "buckin' bronco"

They did a cool drill team routine all on horse back.  The arena was dark and the only lights were those strapped to the horses and riders.  It was like a choreographed routine only sped up a thousand times.  They performed to Ghost Riders in the Sky.

It was Breast Cancer Awareness night, which is the only reason you'll ever find so many cowboys wearing pink.

Colin tippin' his hat to the rodeo.

Wearin' Grandpa's hat

I have exhausted my apostrophe ending (endin') allotment for the week so I'll go ahead and declare this vacation in the books.  And that's fairly easy to do because we're settled back in a home, the laundry is done, and we're headed full force into the start of the school year.

Thank you Grandpa and Grandma for planning such an amazing trip.  We've been home two weeks now and every day some memory of our trip will come to mind and we talk about how much fun it was and all the amazing things we got to do.  They'll remember it for a long long time. 

Some time soon I'll share how we survived the 44 hour road trip.  Now that it worked just as we hoped we can call it a genius plan.  Had it not worked, we wouldn't be talking about it at all.