Yee-haw!!

Bryce Canyon...some of the most beautiful country there is. No other place quite like it.....

This is Alaska...my ride for 8 hours. her ears cracked me up...they were always just lolly-gagging along. (I love that word...can you picture that??)
Some of us "rough-riders". I rode down with the lady to my right -Athena- and the gal who organizes these activities is in the back on the right...still eatin breakfast, I think!
Here I am at the opening to the hideout. Really tiny spot and I have no idea how they EVER found this place again!! Seriously. It is built in front of this gray rock wall behind a stand of trees in the middle of nowhere!! See my Facebook page for more pictures.
Oh, my gosh!!!! I had written out this huge long post of my weekend and this idiotic blogger thing deleted it...or didn't save it...whatever!!! Frustration doesn't even begin to describe my thoughts here...y'all know how SLOW I am at typing...arrgghh!!! So, it was really witty, too. I'll give it another go...sans the witty, cause that only happens in a blue moon!!
I had a wonderful weekend with 28 women I have never met before. We played Cowgirl Bunco...my first time playing Bunco, and we stayed up talking and laughing until after midnight every night. There were women from 5 different states there, too. We spent 8 hours on horses/mules riding in Red Canyon at Bryce with 1 potty stop and lunch at the hideout. We had 4 "Cowboys" aged 18-24 years old as our guides that told us lots of cool stories about Butch. Did you know he was a butcher before he was an outlaw...hence the nickname?? He was alot of things before he started robbing banks. But, he was NOT a horse stealer. One time he was wrongly accused of stealing a horse, but wouldn't leave the jail cell after serving time UNTIL they cleared his name. His father came to get him and the cell door was open and he wouldn't leave until he was cleared!! He took on the name of Cassidy from a close older friend of his to hide his real last name of Parker. One time he met a lady in tears because the bank was going to take her ranch. He gave her the $1000 she needed and then he held up the banker when he left her ranch and got his money back!! Such a character!!
I had the best Coconut Pie ever at the Bryce Canyon Pines Motel Restaurant!! I think I would like to go back just to eat there!!
I thoroughly enjoyed my weekend. Would've been better with Bruce, but the ladies would've thought that a bit weird! Maybe after my backside has stopped hurting we can go and do this together! Oh, baby!! Am I sore, though!!