I love the rodeo. Actually, I really love the livestock show and the carnival. Anyone who wants to go and doesn't mind my company, call me. I'm in.
We received an invitiation to attend last night's rodeo performance from a law firm. My husband decided that taking part in a caucus in possibly the most significant Texas Democratic Party primary of the previous and next fifty years was more important than my getting to eat a funnel cake (LAME!) so I bummed a ride from a coworker and headed out sans mari.
[Sidebar: while at the caucus, my husband sent me this email - "Mr. B (our elderly neighbor) keeps collapsing in the school parking lot. I wonder if someone should call 911?"]
I hadn't been to the rodeo since it moved to Reliant Stadium. The stadium itself is nice... for football and soccer (futbol.) Patrons are still way too far away from the action, and the acoustics are terrible. Everything is loud, but not melodious.
Dislike: Barrel racing (Actually, I like the beginning, when they get a running start, but once they turn, it's boring.)
Like: Bull riding (We saw a guy break his jaw on the horn of a bull. There was blood.) Drink prices ($5 for what usually costs $10.50 at a Texans' game!)
Love: Calf scramble (Kids desperatly pulling calves' poop-and-pee-covered tails toward a chalked box is hilarious. Why do they make those kids where white T-shirts?) Chuck wagon races (WaMu totally won, but the crowd disagreed with me.)
Sad/strange/happy: Faith Hill (As mentioned before, acoustics are atrocious and the soundmixing was worse. The stage, which is positioned at least 50 yards from the very closest audience member) is a weird rotating half-Stonehenge thing. I like her music, but I didn't feel like I heard it. At one point Faith pleaded, "You all sing along with this one. We can hear you..." We left just before the last song, so I missed out on the victory-lap-in-a-convertible - an HLS&R tradition that always cracks me up.)
Didn't see: Bareback bronc riding
Yee haw!
We received an invitiation to attend last night's rodeo performance from a law firm. My husband decided that taking part in a caucus in possibly the most significant Texas Democratic Party primary of the previous and next fifty years was more important than my getting to eat a funnel cake (LAME!) so I bummed a ride from a coworker and headed out sans mari.
[Sidebar: while at the caucus, my husband sent me this email - "Mr. B (our elderly neighbor) keeps collapsing in the school parking lot. I wonder if someone should call 911?"]
I hadn't been to the rodeo since it moved to Reliant Stadium. The stadium itself is nice... for football and soccer (futbol.) Patrons are still way too far away from the action, and the acoustics are terrible. Everything is loud, but not melodious.
Dislike: Barrel racing (Actually, I like the beginning, when they get a running start, but once they turn, it's boring.)
Like: Bull riding (We saw a guy break his jaw on the horn of a bull. There was blood.) Drink prices ($5 for what usually costs $10.50 at a Texans' game!)
Love: Calf scramble (Kids desperatly pulling calves' poop-and-pee-covered tails toward a chalked box is hilarious. Why do they make those kids where white T-shirts?) Chuck wagon races (WaMu totally won, but the crowd disagreed with me.)
Sad/strange/happy: Faith Hill (As mentioned before, acoustics are atrocious and the soundmixing was worse. The stage, which is positioned at least 50 yards from the very closest audience member) is a weird rotating half-Stonehenge thing. I like her music, but I didn't feel like I heard it. At one point Faith pleaded, "You all sing along with this one. We can hear you..." We left just before the last song, so I missed out on the victory-lap-in-a-convertible - an HLS&R tradition that always cracks me up.)
Didn't see: Bareback bronc riding
Yee haw!
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