Rodeo Fun

We just returned from a visit to Houston, which we timed along with an outing to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

Our first day in town we were a little too late to watch the cowboys in the arena, but we did spend a few miutes watching Martina McBride live in concert. We were so late in arriving that others took our awesome 4th row seats, but we knew Colin would be too antsy to sit for long so we dared not kick someone out of our seats.

We spent some time in the livestock area and Colin went to his first petting zoo. The animals had been fed all day and were none too interested in our $2 cup of food. Such cute new baby goats, though!

We finished off our first night with BBQ from Goode company and a walk back through the Midway. Colin was just taking in all of the sights, sounds, and smells, as there was plenty of sensory overload!

He did get a cool black cowboy hat and flashing horse "necklace" which he has now worn for the past several days (Thanks Grandaddy!) I even let him wear the flashing horse to the grocery store this morning and I know the guy in line behind us was like, "What IS that?"

The following day we headed to the rodeo grounds again for the morning and Colin enjoyed seeing more animals, especially the "mooos" and the "baaaaaas." There were THOUSANDS of young girls around on our second day because the show in the afternoon was Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus. There were girls wearing Hannah Montana t-shirts everywhere -- over 73,000 people attended her show, setting a new rodeo record.

It was so great to have a quick trip to Houston to visit with family and with some friends -- our lil cowboy sure did enjoy himself!