More Rodeo

Last week I went to another rodeo in Portegolpe, and a couple days ago Sean and I went to one in Santa Rosa. I thought when I was in Villarreal that would be my only chance to see a rodeo here, but not so! The people of Guanacaste LOVE their rodeos! One seems to occur approximately once a week.

In Portegolpe I got peer-pressured into sitting on the fence, which was a really huge adrenaline rush. The bull will sometimes walk right under your feet. Yes, if it felt like it, it could jump up and gore you. For some reason though, it never seems to do this. Sean sat on the fence in Santa Rosa, and he even kicked the bull. (Yeah it's rude but I guess if you're a man and you see other men kicking a bull the urge to join in the kick-fest is extremely strong. Anyway he really just tapped it with his foot, to show how brave he was.)

As they say a picture is worth 1000 words, and an MPEG is just a series of JPEGs, so here's a quick video I found on youtube, taken at a rodeo in Santa Cruz (near here). Probably worth a few million words.