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Rodeo - CowBoy Festival

Rodeo is what Houston or should I say Texas is all about. Rodeo is a “cow-boy” event. There are bull-riding, horse-riding, calf roping, pig-racing etc. People dressed up like cowboys and cowgirls for the event and it is a family activity. There are livestock where you see donkeys, mules, llamas, cattle, sheep, chickens, pigs, cows etc. It is also an educational event for children to learn about agriculture.

I witnessed egg hatching and the chick breaking out of its shell. It was a long process where one had to patiently wait for the chick to break of its shell (maybe about 30 minutes from the time the egg shows sign of breaking to the chick finally broke free of its shell). It reminded me of a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon. A new life begins… God’s creation of life is amazing…

And I was given a lesson of how to milk a cow and saw the milking process and learned that a milking cow can be milked for about a year long after it gave birth to a calf. Imagine how much milk is that!!! And it gives about 10 gallons of milk per day if I remembered correctly.

There is a mechanical bull where one can try and experience how to ride an untamed bull and be like a cowboy for maybe 30 seconds to 1 minute. Didn’t try though… hmmm… would like to try next time.

All the competitions and races ended with Maroon 5 concert. The concert was cool. Haha… though I have no idea who Maroon 5 is as I hardly listen to any English pop. But for the experience and atmosphere, it was quite cool. Rodeo was held at Reliant Stadium. The stadium was huge much bigger than Singapore National Stadium. And we got the cheaper tickets and we were seated so high up and the seats were angled so steep that we were afraid that we might fell off. And is about 30 odd Sing dollars for the whole Rodeo show including the Maroon 5 concert.

Haha.. finally an interesting event in Houston!

posted by Ying @ 3:45:00 PM