Opening Ceremony

Yesterday at 6:30 we had the opening ceremony for Championships.First came a golf cart pulling a platform with New Orleans flags, umbrellas and people throwing beads at the people in the stands. They were advertising the 2012 Annual Meeting that would be held in New Orleans. After them came 2 Mounted police officers carrying the America flag and the Kentucky flag. After them came a girl who's dad is fighting in Afghanistan. While he was there he flew they pony club flag. The girl had the flag he flew.

The USPC president Tom Adams, the board of Governers, walked in the parade with a banner that listed all the sponsors of Pony Club.

All the teams paraded into the Rolex Arena one by one. They went in alphabetical order and the announcer called out what divisions the regions were competeting in. They all grouped in the center of the ring forming the letters USPC:

Then we had two other guests come in to the ring. A reiner and a polo player. The reined just did a small demonstration of reining and the polo player represented that polo was to become a sport in pony club. Yay!

There was one pony club member who sang the national anthem and the sound system decided to act up. Every time the sound died all the pony club members joined in to make it louder. It was really cool to watch.

Tom Adams declared the games begin!