Rodeo Queen

I have gotten a few emails about the post the other day on being on the news when I got rodeo queen when I was a kid so I just thought I would tell about the experience for fun. I had to get up real early around 4am because we had to be at the tv station at 5am and it was downtown. I got there and they went over all the things they would ask me and I had a paper with my answers on it so I could glance down if I needed to. I had my cowboy hat on with the rhinestone tiara on it (you know...for being a queen) and I had a sash on that said Rodeo Queen with my cowboy shirt. If only I had a picture....LOL (my mom has all those pic this was before digital. One day if I am down in Amarillo I will get a pic and scan it in so you can all see). So I got to sit behind the news desk with the other anchors and it was live tv. It started at 6am and all I really remember is real brite lights and when they asked what all they had at the rodeo I was ready off my paper on the desk and I can remember the guy behind the camera kept waving to me to look up because I was looking down too long. LOL! It was fun and it is a fun memorie to have.

Now what does a rodeo queen do at a rodeo you might ask......Well at the beginning of the rodeo they (well this is how the Range Riders Rodeo did it in Amarillo years ago) would have a drill team which consisted of about 12 people on there horses carrying flags come in and do a routine to a song and then stop at certain points in the arena. Then the queen would come in on her horse carrying a American flag to the National Anthem and ride around the arena to the song and stop in the middle when the song was done and they would say a prayer and announce some other things then play another song and the drill team and queen would ride around doing another routine and then line up at the end of the arena at the opposite end of the gate. This was my favorite part....then two by two the drill team would run down the middle as fast as they could get there horses to go and the queen would go last and the crowd would be standing up yelling and clapping! And then the rodeo would start. It was a blast!! The year before and the year after I was in the drill team and that was fun too!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36A_f8xS28w&feature=related

Here is a video of a drill team for a better example. The person carrying the American flag is just like the one I had to carry. So this will give you a good idea although we did a different routine but you will get the point. What did we do before utube?? LOL! It was fun times!

c-ya later