My sister-in-law has been asking me what kinds of family-friendly shows there are around here. She’s been thinking about coming to visit us in a couple of months, and wants to bring her kids with her. She was particularly interested in trying to buy some Sesame Street Live Tickets or Disney on Ice Tickets. Personally I’d rather get some Kentucky Derby Tickets but I guess that wouldn’t make her very happy! Besides, the Derby isn’t local, and we don’t have the resources to travel that far right now. And it will be quite some time before I’m up to traveling that far anyway. Just my luck I’d travel there and then be in too much pain to leave the motel room!
So it is probably just as well that we look for local entertainment. I’m sure glad that finding places to see and go and do is so much easier than it used to be – just a few clicks of the mouse and you have fun at your fingertips!
I remember when I was a kid, my uncle and his wife picked me up and put me in the back of their station wagon along with their brood of 5 kids, my cousins and was taken to the Houston Rodeo for the day. It was a bit scary at first. Everything was so large and exciting, larger than life like. But after the first initial shock wore off I was good to go and really had a blast for the rest of the day that we were there.
I gained a new respect for these folks who really put their health and their lives on the line to entertain the public and compete against each other. I’ve never been to another rodeo, but I do think about it from time to time. Like when I’m switching channels and I run across a rodeo taking place. I stop and watch for a few minutes, enjoying a few good memories and then move on. Or I see some rodeo going on in a movie or television show.
I’ve heard that they are starting to sell tickets to concerts at the Houston Rodeo and I’ve taken a fancy to the idea of taking the wife and a few other select members of the family to witness this fascinating sport. We haven’t done anything exciting like that in some time. Now that the holidays are all over and done with we need something to pump us up again. The Rodeo might be just what we need!
You can never tell these days if the photos that are being passed around on the Internet are for real or not. I just received this photo in my email today. I got a good laugh out of it and wanted to pass it along here for grins and giggles.
Have you ever wondered where folks can buy a radar gun to measure how fast someone pitches a ball? My neighbor was telling me that he is thinking about signing on as a volunteer coach for some Parks and Recreation programs for the school kids. He thought it might be fun to buy one to show the kids how radar works to track more than speeding cars!
I went over to his house today to pick up the chain saw he had borrowed from me and he invited me in for coffee and fresh Krispy Kreme donuts. Well, I’m not one to pass up an offer of free coffee and Krispy Kreme donuts so I was in the door pretty quickly! He showed me a website that he was looking at where the company sells different radar equipment for different purposes. I never realized that there were so many different radar devices; some for baseball, some for tennis, even some for golf! I can’t even imagine why anyone would want to know how fast a tennis ball or golf ball was traveling! But this website had other interesting items for sale on it the piqued my interest – such as portable ice rinks. I’ve always wanted to set up an ice rink for the kids to ice skate on in the winter! Now I know where I can get one!
