Houston Rodeo and All that goes with it...

Jeff called me one day from work and said "Would you like to go see Brad Paisley in concert this week?" My only response "Of course!" I was so excited. The concert was going on with the Houston Rodeo, which I also wanted to go to. We debated on whether or not to bring Harrison but decided that he would like the rodeo, carnival and petting zoo so instead of finding a babysitter, we brought him with us! Hoping that we could wear him out and he would sleep through the concert part.

So we started at the petting zoo and right as we were coming in, some little girl was screaming as her parents brought her in. I felt bad and was glad that wasn't my child. Harrison loved the animals, but wasn't so sure about touching them at first. He was standing a safe distance away.
He was a little braver when we were holding him and even tried kissing the animals.
We tried getting him closer and closer and he did seem excited. He was nervously laughing the whole time we were there.
Getting closer...
I pushed his hand down and he laughed about it but was still not ready to touch.
Now he was ready. The goat sitting down was more less scary. After that, we had to work really hard to keep him from bugging the animals and poking at them.

After the petting zoo we headed to the carnival. We just did a quick walk through on our way to the rodeo and concert. Harrison loved all the lights and noise.


Jeff got the tickets through work so we got to sit in the box seat section. They fed us and the view was great. It was awesome. It was such a big place for a rodeo though that we had to watch the TV screens most of the time to see what was going on. Harrison loved it though.
Watching the wagon races...
and all of the 4H kids chasing around cows. He looks really interested (you can tell by him being up on his toes!)
Setting up for the concert.
Brad Paisley-March 11, 2010
We had a great time and it was a late night for Harrison (who did not fall asleep) but we all had a great time.