I was up bright and early this morning to attend the Ogden Breakfast Exchange Club meeting with
Chenae Shiner, Miss Rodeo Ogden, her Attendant Martina
Wardle, and Craig
Bielik, the Marketing and Public Relations Director of Ogden Pioneer Days to inform the members of the club about all the great events that are part of the Ogden Pioneer Days Celebration. The 77 year old celebration has three parades, four nights of rodeo, the Farmers Market, dances, concerts, art shows, tractor shows, car shows, movie nights, fireworks, a special kid's rodeo, Miss Rodeo Utah pageant events, and many other fun activities. A complete schedule can be seen on the Ogden Pioneer Days website.
http://ogdenpioneerdays.com/events/calendar.php
Today I had a great time with the morning and afternoon Buffalo Point Kindergarten classes in Syracuse. Their last unit in school is about cowboys, cowgirls, and the old west and they even have their own kindergarten rodeo at the end of the year. I went to teach them about the history of rodeo and about each of the rodeo events. I took my saddle, bridle, my roping dummy that the kids named Fred, chaps, spurs, and ropes so that the kids could participate in some of the events. At the end of the lecture the kids got to practice asking questions that they had wrote down ahead of time. My favorite questions was "Does the Queen have a King?" Each class made me a book labeled "One Hundred and One Questions for Miss Rodeo Utah" with pictures that each student drew along with their questions. It was a fun day and I appreciate the school for inviting me.
