Airdrie Rodeo Royalty's Travels from May 8-10

The past few weeks have been busy for the Airdrie Rodeo Royalty! On May 8th we started our month off with McHappy Day. Sam and I spent the afternoon helping take donations for the Ronald McDonald House Charities. We spent time at both the Edmonton Trail and Yankee Valley Blvd. McDonalds locations interacting with the customers and we even had the chance to help take money and serve food through the drive thru! During our time at the Edmonton Trail location, Sam and I helped hand out "smiles" and stickers to all the kids while they were enjoying lunch. We are happy to have had a small part in helping the Airdrie McDonald Restaurants in raising over $29,000 for the Ronald McDonald House Charities.



Taking a photo with our "smiles" with one little boy who was very excited to meet us!

Our help with fundraising for the week didn't stop there. On May 9th we spent the evening at Mark's for their Mother's Day Sale and helped take donations for the Breast Cancer Society of Canada. Sam and I helped sell socks and wristbands to help bring in money for the society.


On Friday, May 10th, we were off to Stavely for the Stavely Indoor Pro Rodeo, our first pro rodeo of 2013! We arrived in Stavely after a 5 hour drive and headed off to the Steak Supper. Here we met up with Miss Strathmore Stampede, Becca Walters, and Miss Rodeo Stavely, Kaitlan Schlosser. Sam and I put together our BBQ skills and cooked up our steak with the other royalty. Following the supper we headed off to the trailer to get horses ready for grand entry! After a long winter season, it felt great to be back on a horse at a rodeo representing the Airdrie Pro Rodeo! Sam and I spent the rest of the night with Miss Strathmore Stampede watching the rodeo performance.


Airdrie Pro Rodeo Princess (Sam Bilsborrow), Miss Strathmore Stampede (Becca Walters), Miss Rodeo Airdrie (Nicole Briggs) before grand entry!

We spent the night in Stavely and had the whole day to ourselves as the rodeo performance did not begin until 7 and the dinner was not until 5. Sam and I don't spend much time South of Calgary so we took this opporunity to do a little shopping at some of our favourite western stores in both Claresholm and Nanton. We even made a quick stop at the Nanton Rodeo Grounds to watch and cheer on some of my good friends and 4-H members at the Alberta Jr. High Finals Rodeo before heading back to Stavely to get ready for that evenings peformance.

Before Saturday Night's Grand Entry!



The Visiting Royalty.
Cochrane Lions Rodeo Queen, Miss Rodeo Okotoks, Airdrie Pro Rodeo Princess, Miss Rodeo Airdrie, Miss Strathmore Stampede, Hanna Pro Rodeo Queen, Miss Rodeo Taber

We spent that night with many other visiting royalty. Miss Rodeo Okotoks, Erica Lee, Miss Rodeo Taber, Tianna Meier, Hanna Pro Rodeo Queen, Nichole Martin, Miss Strathmore Stampede, Becca Walters, and the Cochrane Lions Rodeo Queen, Lexie Courtney, all put our BBQ skills to work during the Steak Supper! It was great to be able to spend some time with the other Alberta Rodeo Royalty after the winter season and you could tell we were all excited to be back together at a rodeo! Following the supper we participated in grand entry and then took in a bit of the rodeo before heading to sign autographs. We had many people come over to visit and it was great to see so many rodeo fans out at one of the first Pro Rodeos of the year!

The visiting royalty with Dennis Halstead during the Saturday Night Rodeo Performance.

The visiting royalty enjoying the steak supper!

 

 

 

Happy Trails!

 

Nicole Briggs

Miss Rodeo Airdrie 2012