Friday, July 8, 2011

Stampede 2011

Time to dust off the ole' Cowboy hat, and polish up the boots..... it's STAMPEDE 2011!!! We got our tickets to the chucks / Grand stand show, and arrived early enuff to test some of the Carny food before going to the show. New on our list of yummy foods this year is the "La Poutinerie" there was a girl in front of us who was from Quebec, and she swore that this booth had AWESOME poutine!!!

when we got to the front it was hard to decide which to order, there were alot of choices! I almost.... ordered the Italian poutine with salami and sauce.... ans then I thot" what am I thinkin? don't mess with pasta sauce.... "so I ordered the regular one, and it was GREAT!


Dean ordered the pulled pork, but this year it was dry and a little disappointing so he will take that off the list for next year. Plus, the poutine is really filling..... so you can't waste filling up on stuff that isn't awesome!




this is totally reverse scrapbooking..... guilty as charged, we have this amazing piece of paper at the store, that has a Ferris wheel on it, so I wanted to use it and I took this pic specifically for that page!



singing Oh Canada as a giant flag flies by via helicopter




the chuck races, it rained a little bit, we were crossing our fingers that it wold stop so the show wouldn't get cancelled, the clouds went away, and it stayed blue for us! Whew!



they had a mini race with toy horses.... too cute!



and the show starts, it was phenomenal this year.... it gets better every year!







I love how so much of the show is in the air!



these guys were so kewl!! they jumped onto the trampoline and then walked up the wall, they took turns going in the "windows" and doing all kinds of jumps and twists, from our angle you could only see one side, but on the big screen you could see that the guy on other side was doing the same thing, making a really kewl effect!



yes! those are cars in the air!!



this giant puppet was the best! and in his hand, in that bubble was a girl turning and twisting around, the effect looked like she was in a bubble, free floating, so neat!



in the center of that fireball, is a man! A human sparkler!!!



the finale that brought a tear ( or 2 ) to my eye! The song, and show was absolutely amazing!!

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