OFF TO THE RODEO

The "Super Bowl" for Rodeos is held every year in Las Vegas during the first part of December. This is the culmination of the rodeo season, and the top 15 contestants from around the country travel to the National Finals Rodeo, to compete for the chance to win a world championship, and lots of prize money. This is a huge, 10 day event, with rodeo performances each night at the arena on the U.N.L.V. Campus. During most years, the 17,000 seat Thomas & Mack venue is sold out a year in advance.

We'll fire up the motor home this morning, and drive the 150 miles north to Sin City. This will be our 9th year working this event, selling the official merchandise, in one of 3 locations inside the Las Vegas Convention Center. There will be hundreds of vendors inside the convention center, all selling merchandise related to the rural, ranch, cowboy lifestyle. We thought our rodeo careers were over at the end of last years event, when we learned that the company we contracted with (MainGate) lost the contract, and we doubted that the new company would continue to utilize our services. As it turned out, the new company (A3 Merchandise), asked us to work with them in the same location where we have been the last 4 years. All of the merchandise we will be selling can be seen at www.prorodeogear.com.

So, we will be gone for about 2 weeks, and will be quite busy for most of that time. I hope to get a few pictures and posts on the blog from Vegas, but we won't have a lot of free time. With a new company, new point of sale hardware, and a new company philosophy, we have a much larger learning curve than in the past, so we're anxious to get there, and get busy!