The Stock Show and Rodeo

Okay, so I grew up going to county fairs, street fairs. Where you walk around, eat fried fair food, look at animals, find the biggest pumpkins, maybe sit on a tractor, and dodge animal poo on the road. Ride some rinky-dink rides that squeak the whole time as you fear your imminent death. See a friend to talk to that you haven't seen in awhile, or even better hide from those people that you don't like to talk to, you know, that old chestnut.

Well this weekend I went to the Fort Worth Stock Shows and Rodeo. Still a fair...but different. They still had rides, good fair food, animals, and all that stuff, but it was just different than what I guess fairs from my Northern neck of the woods are like. The fair food was good. That red velvet funnel cake was great. I also had a foot long corndog,  and I think it is the first one that I have had from a fair in almost 3 years! The Stock Shows is the one time of the year for all of the cowboys and cowgirls to get all dolled up in their boots, big belt buckles, and cowboy hats. I saw so many women with bedazzled everything basically, that they didnt even look like a cowgirl. They were all drinking Coors Light and grouped up into their little cowboy and cowgirl cliques. Sorry, I just still am not used to the whole cowboy/girl scene. Anywhere else in the US, you get dressed up like that and you get made fun of.  I can't wait to get one of those outfits...said me, NEVER! Maybe I will get a pair of unassuming cowboy boots one of these days, since I always wanted a pair, but that would be it. Yee-HAW! It seems like a farce these days, since that is not what drives the DFW area anymore. Yeah, there is TONS of money in this area. Everyone can get rich around here easily. Jobs are plentiful, technology is advancing, small business entrepreneurs can almost guarantee success. It is just an amazing area to be and feel safe from some of the downfalls of other areas of the country. I guess tradition carries on, whether it is current or not, and that is cool. I have no right to judge, what tradition did the area I grew up in have? Not much, so in a way it is nice to be in an area where the people here love and believe so much in their way of life. I sit back and watch, because I don't think that I will ever get that same love for this area, but that is another story for another day.