Sep 2008

YEE-Haw!

This past weekend we took a brief sojourn from the beautiful bay area to mosey on back to Oregon and enjoy the Pendleton rodeo with Kevie and his family (and thanks to them yet AGAIN for letting us come along...as always the food was great and the conversation was even better).
Like last year we camped out at the local littleleague field

For how close it is to the round-up its surprising how few people stay there.

We showed up late thursday night and set up so we had all of Friday and Saturday to enjoy. We began friday morning right with biscuits and gravy at Crabbys (not recommended) before going to the parade, which was a lot of fun but kind of hot and smelly :o) heres some parade highlights...

yeah thats right, big freakin oxen right down the middle of main street... I know Im still a city girl when this freaks me out every year :o)

Benny made an appearance...pretty cool

I know nothing about horses but these were big and pretty so I took a picture

and its not a party untill bigfoot shows up. So this must be a totally pacific northwest thing but people were seriously excited about bigfoot, like this wagon came by and kids started yelling and waving and running to take pictures with him... weird but cool

Friday we generally just hung out, met up with family, enjoyed the let er buck room, Oh and most importantly we ate some fry-bread tacos YUM! I didnt take a picture, I scarfed it down too quickly, but trust me it was good. We dressed up this year, hats, plaid, and I had some kick-ass boots. Kev even rocked the sheriffs badge...

howdy sheriff

Saturday morning we rose with the sun, literally because we didnt have tents for everyone so we just slept out in the open

Saturday morning cowboy breakfast

It was a good day at the rodeo despite the seats right out in the sunbowl, we beat the heat by hitting up the let er buck room about midday :o)

The whole gang hanging out in the SunBowl... Micah, Erin, Kev, Me and Ev

All and all it was a great time, cant wait to go back ...thanks again to kev and fam :o)

More Round-up photos can be found on our Flikr page...enjoy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pacificcrest/sets/72157607316143200/

So we got through graduation and moving out of Corvallis (phew!)... We started on the PCT June 24th in Seiad Valley, CA.
We had a bit of a rough start, the first day was straight uphill all day and there were lightning storms and fires in the few days to follow. Nicole dropped out early in Ashland, opting to drive ahead to the next stop and play support team for the next few weeks :o) Emmett and Olivia roughed it out untill Crescent Lake, Or. Yvonne kicked ass and made it to Bend, Or. And Everett and Ryan hauled themselves all the way through Oregon to just north-east of Mt. Adams in Washington. I'm putting a few of my pictures on here but a full collection can be found on our flikr site...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pacificcrest/