A few days passed in which we had the chance to experience something for us completely new! Have one of you guys ever seen horse AND bull rodeo before?
No?
We neither.
So we were very excited when we started spontaneously to Charleville last Saturday. We packed our stuff up and after pumping the wheels, we were prepared for our trip.
That was what we had thought!
The drive to Charleville turned out as a real adventure.
At first there was a big big brown snake laying on our site of the road. She was really really big. I mean very big! I was very afraid of her, although she was outside. But it was just .. Did I say she was big?
That picture of the snake burned in my head. My heart was fluttering.
It took a while after I got over that shock by breathing and do a lot of “Wuuuuusaaaaaa” with Linda.
Another thing is that the street gets very small at some places, so it was a real challenge for an unpracticed driver to keep the car in lead. Fortunately I am not an unpracticed driver!
So all the emus and kangaroos couldn’t make me nervous at all (which is a lie, but that’s a thing nobody has to know ;) ).
Half of the way we stopped to have a little break and get some more fuel and continued our trip. After circa two hours drive at all (‘cause we followed the speed limits all the time!) we arrived at Charleville and made our way to the show and the rodeo.
Linda and I were a little bit excited and Josephine, a friend out of town, explained us some rules concerning the rodeo. Good to know!
They have to stay at least 8 seconds on the bull to come to the next round. And winner is that one, who stays on the quadruped longest.
There was also a rider from Cunnamulla so that we knew instantly whom we had to cheer for! And he was pretty good!!
Nevertheless the horse riding was more interesting for us, because it looks quite more impressive. Isn’t that a strange thing in human nature to be entertained by watching other people in danger? .. Anyway.
Have a look at our video and get an impression of what we have seen.
Next to the rodeo was a hype with flashing colorful lights, a lot of carrousels and – what else – a lot of food stands.
We felt like little kids when we saw fairy flosses! Of course we had to buy some and enjoyed it! We sat down at the grandstand and watched the rodeo, eating candy floss, drinking hot chocolate and getting sugar flashed later on. There were some air slides, which really fancied me, some very high moving technical carrousels, which fancied Linda .. and a bar in the middle of the whole place, which, you can imagine, fancied us both ;).
All in all it was a great experience to see a rodeo and how the people around being engrossed in the rides!
If you haven’t experienced one before, you should catch it up!
PS: Be curious in what we can report from the Cunnamulla Show after this weekend!
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