With a pair of live longhorn steers, two goats, free food and lots of folks in jeans and cowboy hats, Rodeo Roundup outside City Hall on Tuesday was a precursor to the real deal.
The 81st annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo starts Feb. 25 and continues until March 17.
Perhaps the seminal event to signal it's rodeo time is the rodeo parade, which this year has a new route outline Tuesday by Mayor Annise Parker.
Scheduled to step off at 10 a.m. Saturday, the parade starts at Walker and Bagby and does not take place on Texas Avenue as it has in years past.
The 2013 rodeo parade takes this route:
Walker Street to Travis Street, right on Travis
Travis to Bell Street, right on Bell
Bell to Louisiana Street, right on Louisiana
Louisiana to Lamar Street, left on Lamar
The parade ends at Lamar and Bagby, two blocks south of where it starts.
Mayor Parker addressed the route changes in her noon remarks to the crowd at Rodeo Roundup, noting that the changes are because of growth downtown.
"We've got three new light rail lines being constructed, we have new residential housing going in downtown and we've got a bunch of new high-rise office buildings going in downtown," she said. "We have to make sure all of that growth is comfortable with what we do in downtown Houston, particularly with the largest parade in Houston, which is the rodeo parade."
Preceding the parade is the 25th annual ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run, which takes the same route as the parade.
During her remarks, Parker thanked three men involved in planning the parade route changes: David Yates, parade committee chairman; Philip Martin, rodeo trail ride committee chairman; and Dave Bishop, ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run registration director.
Parker also proclaimed Friday as Go Texan Day in Houston.
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