We started the day with a visit to Southcenter, a shopping center client of ours in Calgary. During Stampede, it's tradition to serve free breakfasts. It's said you can go the whole week and not pay to eat because there's always some free meal going on. Southcentre gets about 8,000 people to come out and stand in line for over an hour for a paper plate with two pancakes and a sausage link. It's astounding.
We were asked if we wanted to show up at 7am and help serve. We declined. But they do all start drinking right away.
Later we took the train downtown to The Palamino. We ate barbeque, drank and listened (at times) to a band.
Stampede Roundup
Eventually it was time for the big show. Stampede Roundup. This is basically a big concert. Lots of corporate sponsored tents and such. The lineup was Loverboy, Our Lady Peace (which I'd never heard of but enjoyed) and The Steve Miller Band.
We spent a lot of time running into corporate tents uninvited because we experienced periodic downpours, tornado warnings and honest to God hail. But other than that it was fun. But the big event was The Steve Miller Band, which we left during the first song because everyone was cold, wet, tired and hungry.
Some people call me the Space Cowboy....
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I always wanted one of my sons to be a cowboy. Now I can die in peace. :)
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