If you can't have fun in Cody, you can't have fun

Fresh off our patriotic high we rolled covered wagon style into the Old Wild West in Cody, WY and boy was it wild! We joined Buffalo Bill, Wyatt Earp, Butch Cassidy, Fred, and the gang (including what seemed to be Kevin Costner keeping his acting skills up between movies with a re-enactment gig; I mean, I didn’t see Swing Vote but I had no idea things had gotten this bad!) for a good ole’ fashioned gun fight! Fear not, only the town whore and drunk bad guy died.

We scrambled for a beef dinner to soak up the remnants of the whiskey-soaked blood bath as we were late for the rodeo. The ultimate cowboy championship was hosted by a 5-time world champion cowboy and three-time broken neck survivor. We were in for an extra treat when we unwittingly sat in the VIP section next to Buffalo Bill looking pretty great for his 158 years and fresh from the town gunfight.

The rodeo was chilly, but the action was hot. We never expected anyone to be able to jump up a running horse, grab a bull by the horns, and wrestle it to the ground. We definitely didn’t see it coming in under 12 seconds.

If you don’t enjoy these pictures, it’s your own damn fault.