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Friday, March 2, 2012

Breakfast on the Trail

Biscuits and gravy, sausage, catfish toes, brisket tacos, cowboy coffee, and pancakes with gravy.…You can eat all that and more at the Cowboy Breakfast. You may not know this, but cowboys are great cooks. The cowboy biscuits were superb!

Perez Elementary Principal David Kauffman and some of his top students joined the fun!

I woke up early this morning to have breakfast rodeo style with about 150 students from Cowan and Perez elementary schools and Garcia Middle School. I met the princess of Rodeo Austin, who not only is beautiful, but gets good grades and is great horseback rider. My host was Tommy Cowan, whose father is the namesake of Cowan Elementary School. He is this year’s head of the Cowboy Breakfast, and he invited our students to the event. There was music and dancing, and clowns and balloons. A great way to start the day and to kick off the Rodeo!

Cowan Elementary kids looked great!

Thanks, Tommy Cowan, for all you do for AISD!