Well I haven’t posted in while due to many things going on and not all good. We found out last Thursday that Bambi had a miscarriage. I’m not going to post any more on this topic due to this being a public forum. I did spend all day with her on Thursday & as much as I could through the weekend, as we grieved and coped with our sudden loss. We've had tons of family & friends support -- thank you.
I am a volunteer at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and this is my 5th year to be on the Transportation Committee. I made sure Bambi was okay before I decided to fulfill my obligation this year. She thought it would be good to get my mind off of the baby. I had to work Thursday (5pm-midnight), Friday Day (10am-4), and Saturday night (5-12). The Transportation Committee helps transport visitors and patrons of the show in and around the Reliant Complex. When you show up to the Rodeo, you will be doing a lot of walking. The Transportation Committee tries to take out some of the long walks in and around the show - we are NOT in charge of the Metro buses.
Now my 3 shifts take place during the craziest times of the Rodeo, the BBQ Cook-Off. This year was pretty tame for the BBQ cook-off until Saturday night. I was working on what we call Rodeo Way which is the drive between the Astrodome and Reliant Stadium. I was stationed right at the entry of the carnival doing crowd control until I grabbed dinner. After dinner I was stationed where the tram was loading people at the entry gate. Well around 10:30PM gun shots off very near were I was standing just a couple of hrs later. I was glad I wasn’t around and it happened to be a gang related thing. I know a group young black people were jumping another individual and then 6-8 gun shots went off. I followed up on the story last night and saw where they had caught all of the people involved and made two arrests. No one was seriously injured as well, one person was shot in the butt and another person was shot in the foot. Now I ask myself why one would bring a gun to a cook-off but nothing surprises me anymore, I’m just thankful no innocent bystanders were injured. That would have really have pissed me off, I was surprised we kept operating after the incident but 90% of the people never knew that gun shots went off Saturday night. We can’t let a small group ruin the experience for everyone.
Hopefully next year the BBQ cook-off is really boring, we only had 1 ½ hrs left but then the gun shots rang out. 
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