Yaaa Hooo!!

Parade Day!  We’re up bright and early to catch the train to the center of Calgary for the opening parade and the first day of the Calgary Stampede.

View from RV. 

The parade may have started at 9am but it did not reach us until almost 10:30. During that time several different cultural groups walked by and performed danced from their home countries.  Almost every other entry in the parade was a marching band from schools, colleges, police, and armed services.  My favorite were the bagpipers.  Of course there were floats and lots and lots of horse entries.  So many, in fact, that street sweepers were part of the parade entries.

An FMCA club has arranged all the things we will do the next five days so that we can find others of our group in the crowd we were all wearing lime green hats or visors.  Since we were sitting together for the parade our hats brought a lot of comments and interest from those folks walking in the parade.

The official yell of the day was “Yaaa Hoooo!!”   On the count of three — One! Two! Three!   Yaaaa HOOooooo!!!