The Cowboy Breakfast just keeps getting better and better every year. Once again this annual event was held at Auditorium Shores on the first Friday in March. The free breakfast publicizes the upcoming Star of Texas Rodeo Austin, which is held outside of downtown at the Travis County Expo Center in the second half of March.

Every year there is so much new to see and learn at the Cowboy Breakfast. Here’s what I learned this year:

Line dancing is fun, even at 8 AM in the morning with a lot of strangers watching.

Some cowboy hats require their own personal stand.

Cowboys bake the best biscuits in the world.

Cowboys like a lot of gravy on the aforementioned biscuits.

Cowboys practice their lassoing on children.

Cowboys love sausage…but I already knew that.