NFR Honeymoon - Part 2

We went and visited the Mandalay Bay aquarium!

 There was another "Cowboy Christmas" type show at Mandalay bay! Tommie Turvey, Equine Extremist was doing short presentations.

 This is his dog. He is some kind of Australian herding dog, but not an Australian Shepherd.

 This is the Million dollars at one of the old casinos down on Fremont Street.

 We sure enjoyed watching the light show above Fremont Street.

 We went up in the Stratosphere. This is the view from ~ 800 feet in the air!

 Odin was pretty excited to visit the Pawn shop, where the show "Pawn Stars" is filmed. It was a tiny "hole in the wall". Definitely not a place I would walk into and say "Wow, this would be an awesome place to have a show."

 At the entrance to the Rodeo, Guy McLeod - "Australia's Leading Horseman" did a demonstration. His horses were beautiful and very well trained. It was quite impressive.

 He said this horse is his "go to horse" his "super hero horse", so he figured the horse needed a cape.

 This was his grand finale!! The horse underneath was practically falling asleep! I couldn't believe it.

WNFR here we come!

Part 1: 

For our honeymoon, Odin and I decided to got to Las Vegas for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo!! Boy, did we have fun. We put 500 miles on our pickup, just driving around the city.

 Odin and I heading out of Great Falls, on our way to Las Vegas.

We stayed at the South Point hotel for the first 4 nights.

It was truely "Cowboy Central". There were soooo many cowboy hats everywhere it was amazing. They even had country music playing in the lobby. In the South Point, they have an indoor "Equestrian Center"! So we took advantage of that and went and saw Pat Parelli.

 Odin thoroughly enjoying the "pony show".

 Pat Parelli and his horses.

Later that evening we went to the first night of the WNFR!

 The big screen.

 Odin and I found our seats early! Good thing too, because the place was packed.

 This was the horse that carried the flag for the National Anthem. I wonder if its mane is real or if he has extensions. They have those for horse, you know!

 Guess who is singing the National Anthem?

 That's right! Reba McEntire!!!!!! Sooooo cool.

 These are all the contestants, from all over the states.

 This is the pickup man from Montana! His horse is sure good looking.

 Saddle Bronc riding.

 These are all the ladies that carry the flags and their black horses.

 The clown in the barrel!

Bull riding!

To be continued.....

Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving

Odin and I spent Thanksgiving with Ronnie, Glen and Uncle Bob at the North Farm again this year! This was the first year since Odin and I met that we didn't stay at the farm as well. Odin said we could, but it didn't make any sense since we have our own place 40 minutes away! Ronnie made all the fixings and a wood stove turkey! The absolute best!!!

 Ronnie making gravy.

 Calli even found her favorite spot again!

 Odin helping put out the food.

 Ronnie carving the turkey.

 From Left to Right: Glen, Odin, myself, and Uncle Bob (Ronnie and Glen's father)

 From Left to Right: Uncle Bob, Ronnie, Glen and Odin

 When we got home, Luna had got her 4th injury. Yeah for me... Of course it was really cold, so I was really thankful for a large lit barn to inspect the injury in!

 The horse's barn, with 2 functional stalls (there are 4 stalls in total, but two aren't cleaned out or fixed up yet) and an open area (that you can see in this picture) where Rio likes to hang out!

Luna eating her food, while I tried to treat her injury.