Yesterday, The SEED held its first Annual Stampede BBQ. it was an all day affair for our department. bright an early at 8am, we were blowing balloons to create a more festive environment. we were out setting up displays, lining tables with table cloths, and for the rest of the day, i was handing out water, pop, and juice. everybody was decked out in the cowboy gear, and we had a country band play as well. the event coincided with the end of the Stampede Parade (would you believe a city that has a parade on a work day?!) and we caught a few people on the way back to their cars. all in all, it was a fun, hot day where we served beef and buns, macaroni salad, coleslaw, and a donut. the community showed up including the Calgary Herald (equivalent of Vancouver Sun).
im not joking when i say that there are crowds of people just walking down the street in cowboy hats, and plaid shirts, and some even in boots! i wanna just pull out my camera and take a shot, but i gotta wait until the right time. i guess you could say the city is "alive". i still haven't decided if i'm gonna go to the Stampede event itself... nothing about it really excites me aside from the novelty that it's Calgary's claim to fame...we'll see.
and now for some pics:
[start of the day, mine and Naomi's office...filled with balloons! that's Courtney blowing them up with the helium tank]
[Sarah, setting up our display table]
[Courtney at our display; DemoCrew display in back...which i will tell you more about next week!]
[ the Calgary Tower right above us]
[cute little pooches; they're The SEED's mascots in a local baseball league, but also the dogs of our Human Resource Coordinator. aren't they cute Dad? ]
[yeehaw!]
[a chuckwagon, apparently people race in vehicles like this in the Stampede]
[me serving water at the end of the foodline. check out my hat and shirt that i scored from a pile of donations..someone donated 7 boxes of hats and shirts to The SEED the day before the BBQ...i actually really like my shirt!]
[two of the four girls that i work with, Sarah and Courtney. i'm actually crouching so that im somewhat the same height as them cos they're both a lot smaller than me...so they asked me to crouch, haha!]
[the band...provided lots of entertainment for the crowds...and is perhaps the most country i've ever heard in my life...like the stuff they play in PE 12 when we learned how to square dance]
[food line]
[food line]
[ahhh, done! Sarah, Courtney, and I sitting and exhausted in the parking lot at the end of the day!]
[me serving water at the end of the foodline. check out my hat and shirt that i scored from a pile of donations..someone donated 7 boxes of hats and shirts to The SEED the day before the BBQ...i actually really like my shirt!]
[two of the four girls that i work with, Sarah and Courtney. i'm actually crouching so that im somewhat the same height as them cos they're both a lot smaller than me...so they asked me to crouch, haha!]
[the band...provided lots of entertainment for the crowds...and is perhaps the most country i've ever heard in my life...like the stuff they play in PE 12 when we learned how to square dance]
[food line]
[food line]
[ahhh, done! Sarah, Courtney, and I sitting and exhausted in the parking lot at the end of the day!]much love,
dL
dL
4 comments:
Hey Girl,
The mascots are definitely the cutest dogs around. They must be the kind of wolf/dog that you find in Alaska. Can you bring one home for me?
Enjoy yourself and take care.
Dad.
Dad...if i brought one home, you'd have to promise that it could sleep INSIDE the house...cos you always said that a dog would have to sleep outside...so sad :(
Sarah, ok ok, true enough...they agreed to my idea of my crouching...there :)
I deleted my comment because I realized this is clearly a public forum :) I assume you read it!
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