RODEO

Well, unfortunately our camping plans for Spring Break did not work out. We cancelled them on Tuesday when the weather said it would be highs in the 40s and 70% chance of rain both Thur and Fri. That is not fun camping. So what to do....a fun family activity to substitute for missing camping

We decided on the rodeo. We go about every other year. Last time we went 2 years ago we just did the outside exhibits, AGventure and the carnival. When I know before hand we are going I can order the half price carnival tickets, but this time we had short notice. But I found out about the value Wed rodeo tickets and we gave it a try. We drove to Reliant park with no tickets hoping to get some....and no problems. We got cheap parking getting there before 3 pm and the value priced $10 tickets got us access to the exhibits, the rodeo action and the Reba McEntire concert. It was a good deal. The tickets plus cost of food at the rodeo cost about the same as going camping....except camping would have been 3 days of fun instead of one. WE are sad to miss camping.

But the Rodeo was fun. My favorite part for the kids was the new exhibit called Farm to market. The kids don aprons and then they have to feed fake chickens and collect an egg. The plant a wooden seed then pick a Vegetable, they milk a cow and get milk, they see a sheep and they person talks about getting wool, the kids are given some wool. There are also some cotton plants and corn plants and they pick corn. Then they take all they have been given to the market and sell it for a plastic dollar which they use to buy a treat. They also had a cute little tractor and back drop for pics as you see. I like that it was fun for the kids, educational, and it was great for pics.

R and S loved the petting zoo. One goat starting eating T's shirt. We watched GASCAR where a goat raced a pig and a duck. Just pig racing each other is better, there is no competition when the goat won every race! But it was cute....the twins did not care to sit for it.

We told the kids before going to the rodeo that we would not do alot of carnival rides. They may get to do one or 2. We were actually hoping for rain so we could nix doing any but it did not rain so the kids got a ride. In fact the twins rode the bumble bee all by themselves. A and the twins got to do the big slide. Toby had to go with S but R was brave and did it alone. That surprised me. C and T went on another flying on your tummy spin ride.

We made one poor choice, thinking we would eat inside Reliant Stadium instead in the food courts outside. We would have saved some money($2.50 hot dogs vs $4) and the food would have tasted better. Oh well. I tried to convince Toby to buy his turkey leg outside, but it was me who said having food to eat while we watched the rodeo inside would probably help the twins sit longer.

This was the kids first time (Except C) to watch the rodeo action inside. Roping calves, bucking broncos and bulls, barrel racing and stage coach races. It was fun to see. The kids enjoyed most of it but they felt it was going long...but we wanted them to see the concert. We had to keep R & S awake....even A was fighting sleep off. I have been to the Rodeo quite a few times and most of them I have seen Reba. I don't know how that happens. She is good but not a particular fave of mine. At least C knows one of her songs....Cowgirls don't cry. But she would have prefered to see Hannah, Jonas Bro or Taylor Swift.

It was a fun night, we left half way through the concert when the youngest 3 could not hold on any longer and need their beds.