Rain Day.... laundry and just hanging out at the coach.
Sunday the 31st at the PBR
Yipeee!!! The rain has stopped and the wind has dried things out.
Boooo!!! It's only about 40 degrees out and the wind is gusting to 20 mph making it verrrrry chilly outside. In fact I put my jeans on, a long sleeved shirt over my undershirt, a jacket and my winter riding gloves just to take the kids out for their morning walk. Oh well, we really should be thankfull we're here instead of somewhere up north surrounded by two feet of snow. The rest of the day promises to be nicer with temps in the high 50's and cloudy.By 11:30 AM we had finished our coffee, cleaned up the morning dishes, walked the dogs one last time, grabbed our directions and jumped in the car headed for Tampa and the finals of the Tampa Invitational for the PBR (Professional Bull Riding). Tampa is about 60 miles south of Bushnell but it's almost all freeway driving.
We arrived in downtown Tampa and found the St Pete Times Forum and pulled into the South Regional Parking Garage where we had a reserved a parking spot. Pulling up to the gate we were told we had to go back to the Forum and get our tickets from will call before we could park. So out of the garage we went, drove around the block, pulled up to the Forum where I jumped out and went to will call and picked up our tickets. Then it was back to the call and around the block again to the garage where we parked next to the elevator. The whole process probably only took fifteen minutes.
Riding down in the elevator we exited the garage and walked fifty yards across the plaza and into the Forum. We bought our lunch, chicken tenders and a polish dog plus drinks and walked across the aisle and down to our seats which were about twelve rows up and eighty feet from the action. We got seated about 1:15 PM and watched the stadium fill up as we ate our lunch.The PBR (http://www.pbrnow.com/) really puts on a great opening show introducing the riders amid fireworks, smoke and lots of flashbang. We really had a great time at the event and stayed to the very end when it was announced that Wiley Peterson from Idaho was the event winner and $28k for the thee day event. Leaving the Forum and walking to our car we were surprised to be greeted with a very sunny afternoon. Leaving the garage we got on the freeway headed towards home within fifteen minutes of leaving our seats.
Since we hadn't made any plans for dinner we stopped at the local Mexican restaurant and had a surprisingly good dinner for under twenty dollars. We made it back to the coach and let the kids out, fed them their dinner then went over to the park where they could run around for a while. The rest off the evening we spent reading and watching the Emmy's.To see all our photos, click on:
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