Flint Hills Rodeo

We stayed at a lovely Super 8 in Emporia, KS on Friday. Though I could not understand everything the guy at the front desk asked as I checked in, I was impressed at the customer service. He called 5 minutes after we got to our room to make sure we had found everything okay. I informed him that we did...it wasn't hard considering our room was the first one at the top of the stairs, which you could see from the hotel desk. My favorite part of our stay (well, second favorite since the first had to be the mini powdered doughnuts at breakfast) was this sign that was posted in the bathroom:

We left our hotel at about 4:45 for dinner at Bobby D's diner. We were 2 of 5 people eating at such a time. Yes, perhaps the rest of them were over the age of 70... Anyway, we each had a pulled pork sandwich with cheesy potatoes, a house specialty the menu told us. The food and my root beer were phenomenal! And we were leaving the restaurant by 5:13. Now that's a good dining experience.

We stopped at the glorious Super 8 to get Becky's camera equipment and then we were off. EJ pulled up to the Flint Hills Rodeo at about 6:15 and kept driving. There were not nearly enough cars in the parking lot for us to go in yet. I attempted to kill time in the surrounding towns. That took 15 minutes so by 6:30 we were pulling into the parking lot. That gave us 90 minutes to check out the "trade show" before rodeo time. Little did we know that the trade show would be 4 booths of cowboy artwork sketched on washboards. I bought us some cans of beer (it was hard to resist buying a coozie for an extra $1) and we took our places. Since we were there so early, no one took our ticket when we entered the "reserved" bleacher area with our "general admission" tickets. So we parked ourselves at the top of the bleachers so we'd have a backrest and then attempted to people watch until show time. I say attempted because, as you will see from the following video, there weren't many people to watch.


Did you like that music? It kept rotating from country to some random 80s rock song and then the last song before rodeo time was....you guessed it...The Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta feeling." Fitting, right?

Yeehaw,
Meghan