What would summer be without the big Mardi Gras we call the Calgary Stampede.
Starting off in the parade this morning, I must have waved to 10,000 people (thanks for waving back). I guess everyone else in Calgary was ready to start this show off right too. The parade was great, just a nice overcast so it didn’t get too hot. I saw loads of people funneling down to the grounds to hit the midway and everyone seemed to be loving the beautiful weather. The rodeo sounded good, we never went over but I could here the crowd from the barns. There was a beautiful BBQ back at the barns with my Friends of SAIT chuckwagon sponsors and then it hit. Welcome to Calgary in July, a 15 minute flash flood. Right before the races, must have been an inch and a half of rain. Soon the wind blew and the sun came back out, craziest thing you ever seen. That is unless you have spent the month of July in Calgary, then it was just another flash flood rainstorm during the Stampede.
Tags: Chuckwagons, sutherland
