lucky me

Today I am off to the "undisputed home of Canada’s largest six-day rodeo". Immediately, I wonder where is the home of the largest 7 day rodeo? Would that be Calgary? Carstairs? How about the little town of Rosebud, Alberta?

No, I'm off to Ponoka and at least one full day of "rodeo action with the best two and four-legged rodeo athletes in the world".

side note: Actually Rosebud is famous for Alberta's only opera house and not much else. A bunch of year's ago when I lived in Calgary, my boyfriend and I would get out the map and drive to all sorts of obscure prairie Alberta towns. One day we found Rosebud and obviously because of it's quaint name, we had to go. Thinking we would find treasure and hidden gems in Mom and Pop antique stores, sit on worn wooden stools in sunny corner pop shops and stroll down beaten wooden walkways, we hit the road. Instead, we found a sleepy hamlet of dirt bikes and Ford pick-up trucks. Kid size mountain bikes leaning up against white vinyl siding houses, and a worn baseball field. The closest we came to a soda pop shop was the local post office-slash-food store-slash-dentist office. And the opera house.

Some other time, I'll tell you about the time I went to the "world famous" Okotoks roadside hootenanny.