What are Trail Riders, you ask? Well apparently, here in Texas, there really are still people who raise horses and ride them around. And the day before the Rodeo starts, Trail Riders from all over the state ride into the big city to take part in the Rodeo parade. It is a fun and surreal day to see wagons and horses trotting down some 8 lane road.
Well, the Trail Riders are all assigned different times they are to parade into Memorial Park, where they are judged on their presentation. So they all stop for lunch in order to stage appropriately for their entrance. This year I was finally on top of things enough to go meet up with some of the cowboys before they hit the park.
We met some friends at the Sears parking lot, where this group had spent the night. Seriously, in the middle of the 4th biggest city in the country, that gets its wealth from oil and gas, there are cowboys camping in parking lots. Most of the riders were really friendly, letting us pet the horses and the kids even got to sit on them. We stayed long enough to watch them parade out onto the road - and then purposefully took the other direction home. Sam waved good-bye and was pumped to go to the Rodeo to see the cowboys again!
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