Herd it through the bo-vine

I spent a couple of days last week working in Colorado. I went to visit the State of Colorado financial department and Arapahoe County. We arrive downtown at the state building about 90 minutes early and noticed a lot of people lining up on the streets, mostly in the sunshine (it was 50 degrees that day). My co-worker, Jerry Anderson (a Burley ID son – born and raised) asked a bystander what was going on. He was told that because it was the first day of the National Western Stock show in Denver they run a herd of cows down through the middle of downtown Denver.
Following the herd was the rodeo queens (America, Colorado, and NW Stock show), a group of antique tractors, various horse drawn wagons (anywhere from 2 to 8 horses), high school bands playing TV western theme songs , and the horse riding teams (all dressed up in their performance costumes). About 30 entries in total. It almost filled the void...