Friday, August 14, 2009

All Fluked Up--Rib Cook Off

The second annual All Fluked Up Rib Cook Off was yet another success!!! It was a day that started very early for some of the entries. Those that were smoking their ribs showed up at the Fluke manor about 7:30 am to get the ribs going. Judging was a four o'clock and if your ribs weren't on the table, then you were disqualified. Thankfully, there was only one disqualification this year, due to the need for canning tuna, or so he says. Brent's ribs were only 10 minutes late, but the judging table was already closed.

It ended up being a very long, fun, and eventful day and night. However, the killer hangover I had the next day was not so fun. Even if you are not entering your ribs, the cook off is a great time for all and there is great food!!!

Here is one of the judges, Dustin, during the judging process...all business, as you can see. All of the judges, with their score sheets, and the ribs in front of them.
Lauren and Marie entered their ribs this year...this was the first time either of them had cooked ribs before. However, they were able to walk away with an award...lucky first timers!!!



Tom gave the kids tractor rides. Kylee obviously was not enjoying this and quickly exited the tram:). As he drove them past all of the people he would announce what was going on and what they were seeing...kind of like Northwest Trek. It was really cute.

"Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys"
For those of you who know Eli, know how funny this is. He is probably the farthest thing from a cowboy, but putting on that hat makes any man feel a little bigger:).



It was a great day filled with events for people of all ages. This year was a little more extravagant than last year, and the plans have already started for next year. I am linking the whole album to the blog.

5 comments:

Kimberly said...

Looks like tons of fun--Maybe I'll make it to next year's event. hmmn, maybe I'll get my hub to enter some ribs--his would probs be rull good.

Kimberly said...

You took a lot of pics! There is a cute one of you and Richie. . .the first one in a sequence of a bunch of you guys. It looks like things got a little crazy by the end of the night--whoa!

Marisa said...

That they did...therefore, I was hung over for TWO days!!! I guess sometimes a really fun night makes for a really bad morning.

Leah said...

I love the pic. of Eli!

Kora said...

Love this blog post...wish I could have been there. It sounds like quite the event. Tom's NW Trek tractor rides made me LOL :).