Annual Show!!!! 2014

Wow I think I am finally recovered on sleep and energy from this weekend. Which was amazing!!!! So here is the post. 

Day 1 

So I checked in at about 8:30am because I was chosen to sell programs (so excited!) so I found my monitor and two other teammates then we went down to the barn. A little after that we went and got costumed and headed to the paddock. We were given the canvas bags for money and checked out 10 books at a time. They were kind of heavy so it gave us motivation to sell them. It was actually really fun!!! I sold 40 programs so I did really well. If you sell 10 you get the patch, 25 patch and red star, 50 patch and gold star, 75 patch and green star, 100 patch and blue star. So I got a red star and a program sale patch. Then I got to go down to the barn with my team. We played a ton of fun games and laughed so much. Finally we costumed for cavalcade. Then we lined up and got our flags. It was a lot of waiting around. We then went to the paddock and waited to go in. Again more waiting. Finally we got to go in I was on the rail and came in on the right side of the arena. Man it is huge!!! You feel so small!!!!! It was over really fast and we rolled up our flags and changed back into our uniform. We are some food and played more games. I took an hour nap. We also went on a scavenger hunt for alumni with their horse names. It was really fun. Red team helped us and we're so nice and welcoming. Then we repeated again for the evening show. I was paired with a shadow rider for this one. I still came on the right side though. Walk, exit, roll flag, un costume again. Even tough we weren't in it much the bonding hat happened in the barn was amazing. My teammates and I literally laughed the whole day. We put all our chairs in our stall and tidies up and we were free to go. That was my day! It was so much fun!!!

Day 2 

I checked in down at the barn at about 10. One of my instructors said alright captain what's wrong with 3 of your riders? Their bandannas were rolled on there head. I felt bad correcting them. Then we went and cleaned the stands. The. We had an all rider meeting and discussed ticket sales. A rider from lancers won the saddle and a girl from hoedowner a won the horse. Congrats!!! After my team had a meeting the instructors commented on the year and we presented them with flowers cards and chocolates. We also gave them a laminated poster that we all signed at white show. I was fighting the tears. We took a picture and then back to the barn. We then went up and shopped the booths. I bought 8 more charms for my necklace. I also got horse pins (rocky, cedar, cinder, and Utah girl) I also got tiny team pins. It was great. Then we got to watch the beginning of the show. I kind of miss getting to watch. Then we went to the barn costumed for the last time. Headed out and preformed our last cavalcade. We then rolled up our flags. I held on sooooo tight. I didn't want to let go! We handed them off and took off our costumes for the last time. I seriously was fighting the tears. Don't cry don't cry. Then we cleaned up our area sweed and hen we all started bawling. We realized it was the end and that was our last moment was a team. It was very emotional and we bade farewell until Saturday for move ups. 

Annual was absolutely amazing and I wouldn't have traded it for the world. I made so many memories and got even closer with my team than before. I'm bawling as I wrote this. I know that I will be in full on tears this coming Saturday. White star you were amazing. I couldn't have asked for a better team. I was proud to be your captain.