Indoor Rodeo? Indeed!

Last week saw me taking a little jaunt to the Dallas - Fort Worth, TX area, Grapevine to be exact, for the 2008 Kawasaki Dealer Show.  For the new cruiser news, go here.  For the "extracurriculars," read on:

While the key part of a dealer show is to get the dealers excited about the next year's product line – and get them to place big orders for their dealerships – the second part of the equation is to get the invited journalists excited about the new models for the coming year, whether they cover the industry as a whole, motorcycles, ATVs, UTVs or PWCs.

Of course, they want us to have fun, too, so we're in a good mood when it comes to writing about those new products.  This year, on the first night, they bused us all to a....indoor rodeo and Texas BBQ.  For us city-slickers, we may have seen stuff like bull riding and calf roping on the tee-vee, but I can tell you that it was a BLAST to see it all in person.  The Mesquite Championship Rodeo also had crazy little wagon train races, barrel racing, trick horseback riding and teeny little kids riding wild and woolly – literally – sheep.

The whole event was very family-oriented, as evidenced by the large number of kids in attendance.  The rodeo runs every Friday and Saturday night from April through September.  So if you're ever in the area and need something to do on the weekend, well, there you go.  Enjoy the photos (scroll over each one for the caption):