Time to catch up again:) Last weekend on March 13th we were honored to be a part of the 2010 Denver St. Patricks Day parade which is the biggest parade for St. Patricks Day west of the Mississippi.
What a fantastic event to be part of. We worked hard the last few months with bake sales and raffles to help raise money to go to this parade. This was something the kids will remember for the rest of their lives:)
We left Friday morning and headed out. It was decided that eating out every day would be way too expensive so we packed lunch meat, chips, fruit, pop, juice, our pizza oven and frozen pizzas for dinner that at the motel room.
It was a nice easy trip with no problems all the way to Denver. We stopped along the way and picked up our friend Susan in Wyoming so she could come and watch.
Had motel reservations already and had a place picked out at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Golden for the horses to spend the night. it was very nice facility with great accomodations for the ponies. Rolled in around 6 pm, unloaded the horses and let them stretch their legs, got their hay and water ready and tucked them in for the night.
Off the to motel, unpacked, got the pizza oven out and fixed dinner.
The kids were beat, and really hyped for the next day.
We spent several days cooking ham and beans, hamburger and beans, bbq roast beef and buffalo stew which was packed in ice for the trip. When we went to bed we set up crock pots with all the food and let it cook all night long.
Voila lunch for the next day.
Up and at it early, out the door by 6 am. Got to the fairgrounds, bathed the horses, loaded up and headed to Coors Field where the staging area was.
Minus a slight problem with directions we made it virtually without incident except running out of fuel in the truck pulling the big trailer a few blocks to the staging area.
But never fear, hooked the truck and trailer to Tom's truck and trailer and he towed us right in:)
Never fails have to make a interesting entrance.
Got the horses unloaded, groomed, tacked and ready. We had several hours before it was our turn, so the kids had a ball watching the parade, we sat and had a leisurely lunch, played around and got the horses accustomed to all the hubub around them.
It was something none of us will ever forger. Over 330 entries, 10,000 participants and approximately 250,000 spectators for this parade. It took over 4 hours to complete the parade.
Our horses and kids made us proud as they were calm, cook and made a fantastic showing.
The parade committe invited us back again next year and we are excited and looking forward to it.
We are very grateful to the business in Custer who donated the gift certificates for the raffle and especially grateful to the Custer Lion's Club and Custer Chamber of Commerce for the generous donations to help get us to this parade.
The horses and riders were
Don Harwood on Icicle Moon
Terri Harwood on Blue Valentine
Jazzmine Hitchew on Maggie Doby
Sammy Jo Zetner on Blue Ribbon
Makayla Miller on Houdini
Sondra Miller on Sagebrush Cenisa
Phil Young on Preacher
Skylar Young on Valentino
Trysten Young on Little Bit
Can't wait for 2011:)
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