It is rodeo time in Houston!

If you are not from Houston, you really would have to visit to understand the sheer size of the event. If you are from Houston those words conjure images of 80,000 people in a football stadium and the best rodeo cowboys and music acts in the world.

My company is a corporate sponsor for the event and we buy tickets every year to entertain our customers. Additionally, Peggy and I are sponsors so we get passes into every night of the rodeo for all three weeks. We attend as often as we can.

Contrary to popular myth, not everyone in Texas is a cowboy or cowgirl. But just about everyone in Texas owns boots and a hat. The rodeo is the place to show ’em off.

We have attended three nights this week and it is just a blast. The best cowboys in the world show up every year because the money for the event is higher than at any other rodeo in the country except the National Finals. The quality of the competition is outstanding, and the rodeo runs like a well-oiled machine. No downtime is allowed and everything moves speedily to get the musical acts on stage before 9:00.

So far this year we have seen Alan Jackson, Styx and Lady Antebellum. Not all of the acts are country performers, so there is something for nearly every musical taste. We’ll be back later this month to see Bruno Mars, Blake Shelton and George Strait. It’s a blast.

If you ever get invited to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo you need to drop what you are doing and go.

It is a spectacle you just need to see to believe.