Go cow, go horse!

A very very early start for people who went to bed at 2am. We had to drop off the car at the airport, our almost black car but more grey now. We took the bus into town and then the metrorail to Reliant Park for the Rodeo. I honestly didn't know that cowboys existed. For the second day in a row, we really didn't blend in. Yesterday we were green, today we weren't in jeans, check shirt and cowboy hat. There were thousands and thousands of cow boys and cow girls. We saw a cow being milked and tried to get to the open rabbit breeding (whatever that entails) but alas, we missed it when we got side tracked by sitting in the big trucks.
The rodeo was in the very very large reliant stadium and even though we had standing tickets, we sat down for the entire show, it just involved moving every so often. So a Hungarian and Brit stood for the American National Anthem, sponsored by Coca Cola and a Houston Company. There were fireworks, a flag and an opera singer.

We watched bucking horses, cows, steer wresting and cows necks and feet being yanked all over the place. It was actually quite horrific and disturbing how its considered a sport. We cheered the horse and cow when they got away, I don't think we understood the point of rodeo. While everybody around us had hot dogs and nacho's we has caramelised ginger and wasabi nuts…I lost 5lbs this holiday, I need to visit again ;)

In the evening we went to the Linguistics Department BBQ and I was invited to Toronto University by a professor. Oh well, at Cardiff University I attended the linguistics conference, I was given chocolate for finishing a linguistics thesis that I didn't write, I've seen Szeged university and now invited to Toronto university.