Trip to Wyoming by Bobby Ericson

This is really late, but the date of this weekend was 11/07/2009. This was a weekend I won’t soon forget. I went to Wyoming to photograph the University of Wyoming Cheer squad at 3 sports events in one day. It was a special weekend as I was able to take my 7 year old daughter Olivia with me. She always asks to go on photo shoots and she really doesn’t get the chance to go to often. Over July 4^th weekend she did go with me to Denver to photograph the Denver Outlaws Dance team which was very special as well.

We left late Friday night and got to Cheyenne Wyoming around 12:00am and we were all in bed by about 1:15am. The next morning we got up at 7am and were on the road by 8:30. We got to the football field at 9:30. Olivia jumped right in and starting hanging out with all the Wyoming cheerleaders. The cheerleaders were amazing all day with Olivia. During warming up some of the squad let Olivia do stunts with them. They put Olivia in the air, and Olivia was very excited. When

the game started at noon, Olivia sat with the Coaches daughters and made new friends right away.

The actual football game wasn’t much of a game, but Wyoming played a very good BYU team. During the game I would look over and see Olivia watching me work. I could tell she was very tired from the long drive the night before, but she did do really good sitting still and watching the game

and the cheer squad perform.

After the football game we had about 45minutes of downtime before we had to meet up with the cheer squad again. We spent the time in the car relaxing and watching Tom and Jerry. At 4:20 we met up with the cheer squad and did some pregame photos and then followed the girls into the basketball arena. That game tipped off at 5:30 and had a better outcome. Wyoming beat Regis by double digits.

At 7:30 the basketball game came to an end and then we headed to the volleyball game. There Olivia sat on the laps of the cheerleaders and watched the match. One of the girls gave Olivia her poms and taught her the cheers. It was really cute and fun to watch. While Olivia was completely exhausted, she held in like a trooper and had a blast. The volleyball game was a lot of fun as I got a good seat to take some action photos of the Wyoming volleyball team. Wyoming beat Air Force in volleyball and our day came to an end. We drove back to Cheyenne and got to sleep in on Sunday. Then it was the long ride home from an amazing weekend.