TUCSON RODEO - DAY 6

Part of the ladies drill team, leaving the arena after the opening ceremonies for day 6 of the Tucson Rodeo.

Weather wise, it was an almost perfect day for a parade. I shot the below picture of the Parade Marshall's warming up their horses in front of our motor home. The 9am start of the parade caused lots of early activity at the rodeo grounds, well before the sun came up. By 11am, the parade was over, and many of the thousands lining the parade route, filtered into the rodeo grounds. It was the biggest crowd yet, and our best day of selling the official licensed merchandise. We topped last years sales on parade day, and we're hoping that trend continues.

Without the leftover National Finals Rodeo merchandise at bargain prices, we wondered how sales would go this year. So far, we're very close to last years cumulative total, but the profit margins should be higher without all of the NFR merchandise at sale prices.

We have 3 more rodeo days, then we'll high tail it out of here back to Lake Havasu on Monday morning. On Tuesday the boat goes in the water for a month at the Lake Havasu Marina, and later in the week, we'll be heading down to Yuma for the Gypsy Gathering RV Rally. We're looking forward to our busy schedule during the next couple of weeks, particularly the visit from our friend Nancy, who recently retired from her job with Merced County.