Sunday, February 12, 2012 -- Had a great day at the Yuma Rodeo. We had to drive 1-1/2 hours to get there. But we have driven that drive other years, it is mostly desert driving on a good road.

The Rodeo last for 2-1/2 hours. I only took pictures of one of each event, as long as it turned out. Thank goodness for digital so you know how it looks and having a good zoom sure helps the pictures turn out too. We have gone to different Rodeos and really enjoy them. (I thought these pictures turned out so good).

After the Rodeo we went out to eat. The area we are parked in doesn't have the "Valentine" type restaurants so enjoyed going out early for the dinner at Logan's Steakhouse. We were back to the resort before dusk.

This young boy rode his pony around the arena and then put all feet on this stand while the National Anthem was sang by a teenager from Yuma. She did much better than some of the music stars do on TV.

Actually this guy stayed on a little longer to qualify for riding it to the end. I hope these guys have a good chiropractor after they get off these horses.

He roped the calf and he did get him tied too. After tying these calves they have to stay tied up for 6 seconds. There was a couple that didn't stay tied. Always sad after all the guys do up to that point.

During the rodeo we had different airplanes come into the Yuma International Airport and the United States Marine Corp Air Station across the road. The Airport and the Air Station share the some of the same facilities. Really don't know what this one was, but there was three different ones like this one.