ST. PATTY'S DAY CELEBRATION

Saturday, March 16 – Carrie arranged for us to join her friends at a local bar to help the Irish celebrate St. Paddy's Day.

Paul and the women…again.

These young folks sure know how to celebrate. It's exhausting just trying to keep up! We spent several hours listening to the bands, talking with Carrie's friends, and drinking green beer.

Soon it was obvious that time had arrived for the “old guys” to hit the road. Don't want to hamper the young peoples' style, you know. Had a good time and headed home to watch some NCAA basketball.

Best socks.

Everyone enjoys green beer at the St. Patrick's day celebration.

Tiniest hat award.

Paul enjoying all his free stuff…including those sexy sunglasses.

The Big Dance, NCAA Tournament, should be exciting with many equally good teams fighting for the National Championship. This is an exciting time of the year for college basketball fans. We will be pulling for Ohio State. Good luck, Shoeless Joe, with your Indiana Hoosiers.

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BLAKE SHELTON AT THE HOUTON RODEO

Friday, March 15 – Sorry, but Marsha said an entire blog must be dedicated to her favorite country singer.

Following the rodeo was the near-record Reliant Stadium crowd of 75,238 for the Blake Shelton concert. Blake sings many of today's most popular songs…Austin, All About Tonight, Honey Bee, God Gave Me You, Hillbilly Bone, and tons more.

Carrie and Marsha especially enjoyed this part of the Rodeo. They acted like a couple of middle school girls screaming and singing along with the western “hunk.” JEESH!

Paul will admit he was entertaining, but he didn't scream. It was quite a show.

Blake is a very popular performer. He is one of the judges on "The Voice." The crowd was well pleased and everyone seemed to have an enjoyable time.

We planned on parking off the Reliant Stadium grounds and riding the train to the Rodeo. This is especially important at the end of the concert when everyone is trying to leave at the same time. But even though we had the address logged into our GPS, we could not not find the Park & Ride Station. We eventually decided to bite the bullet and paid to park in one of the stadium lots. It worked out great, because after the rodeo was over around 11 p.m. as we crossed I-610 on the pedestrian bridge, we were able to see Paul's big white pickup sitting in the lot. We jumped in and were out of the traffic almost immediately. Maybe it's because it takes us “older folks” longer to get to our vehicles. The young kids have skedaddled by then!

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RODEO HOUSTON

Friday, March 15 – After our time at the Livestock Show (see previous Blog), we relaxed and chatted  with Carrie for awhile over a bottle of wine at the Wine Garden.  Then it was off to the Rodeo. What fun! It was the Rodeo Houston Super Series Wildcard. First and second place finishers advance to Saturday's finals and a chance for a share of $2.04 million in cash prizes.

Carrie bought our tickets for our Mother's and Father's day, birthday and anniversary gift. We were in the Club seats…WOW…aren't we something.

Great seats

The categories were…

Tie-down Roping, |

Team Roping,

Saddle Bronco Riding,

 Calf Scramble,

These kids get to keep the calf they catch, raise it, and sell it later.

Steer Wrestling, Barrel Racing, Bull Riding, and Bareback Riding.

For the really young ones (pre-school) age – Mutton Riding. We really enjoyed watching these little kidders trying to ride those lambs. Crazy!

And the winner is….this little GIRL!!!

They had stagecoach racing. Marsha picked the winner this year.

If you have never seen a rodeo, we highly recommend attending one. They are really exciting.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see y'all back real soon. Have a great day!