Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

It was Military Appreciation night at the Rodeo. When we got there they had some Amtracs set up. This was exciting. While living in Hawaii, the Amtracs would drive down the beach right by our house and into the ocean. It was always exciting to go out and watch them.


Just for memory sake, here is the house in Hawaii. Our home is right behind Ben, the blue one. It was a split in half. Ours was on the right side. Right in front of Ben is the fence to the beach. Here is the beautiful sunset of the beach behind our home. Boy were we spoiled. The Marines had a pull-up bar set up. We watched one guy struggle to do his 9 pull-ups. Ben convinced (made) Bodin get up there and whip 10 out like nothing. GO BODIN!

Probably their favorite part of the night though was the animals. They loved them. We got to see some baby chicks hatching and just hatched.

I love how this picture makes it look like Journey is about to get pecked. HA!



We walked right behind the Brahma bulls. I was terrified they were going to kick my kids. A very nice man came and told us they are very calm. He took the kids over to pet one. We were a bit disappointed that we did not get to see the pigs. We could not find them, I wonder if they come and weigh in on a later day. I wanted to see if their pigs compared to my Reserve Champion Pig in 4-H. :)


We enjoyed watching the rodeo. The kids were actually bummed we did not get to see more of it.



We ended the night with the Kid Rock concert. This was the kids first concert, and they loved it. They like the pyrotechnics, and the fireworks. He was very good at interacting with the audience which was great fun. All in all, the night was a blast and ended with them all sleeping in the car on the way home.