Not Everyone Gets a Three-Day Weekend.

Since when is President's Day anything besides a make-up day when you have too many snow days in a school year?  I'm pretty sure nobody had President's Day off last year.  This must have something to do with Obama.

Anyway, because not all of us get 3-day weekends, I had a wonderfully normal weekend spent having a TON of fun with Jon and friends at a Toby Keith concert and PBR event!

If you're thinking to yourself, "Another PBR post?"...you would be correct.  This event deserves a post all its own because it's going in the books as one of the most exciting events I've been to thus far.

To start, it was in the Cowboys Stadium, which, despite whatever criticisms you have about Jerry Jones, his money, his power, and his use of said power and said money, that stadium is amazing.

After a late start due to time spent waiting on a MAN, and some confusion about parking, we fought our way to the entrance about 15 minutes after Toby had started singing.  In all actuality, he was probably just taking shots those first 15 minutes because he wasn't sounding his finest last night.

How he sounded didn't really matter to us since we had plenty of entertainment from the people sitting around us.  There was an adorable little baby boy trying to steal Jon's Miller Lite and hamming it up to everyone surrounding him.  Then of course, there was the large, older man seated in front of us and decked out in full-on cowboy gear, breaking it down to every song they played, even the music they played later during the PBR, including Justin Beiber's greatest hits.  Why they felt that PBR fans would catch Beiber-fever, I will never understand.

Of course, the highlight for me was the bull riding.

Duh.

This event was set up as a bracket system, pairing riders against each other to advance further in the competition, ultimately vying for $50,000.  In the last few match-ups, it came down to the home-town favorite, who is not normally the winning type, versus the golden child of Brazilian bull riders, who is not normally the losing type.  They both bucked off, and it seemed that the Brazilian had taken it.  But in a last second challenge and slow-motion review, the Fort Worth boy pulled it off by just a few hundredths of a second.  Every person was standing and cheering him on through the final rides, making the atmosphere great.  He went on to finish it off with a $50,000 check under his arm as he walked out of the arena in his home town.

All in all, it was a great night spent with amazing company :)

Thanks for going with us, guys!