Pioneer Day Extravaganza

This weekend was Pioneer Day weekend. I have been interning with Provo Parks and Recreation since April as an event planner for Provo city events. We've been planning for the Pioneer Day Extravaganza for a couple of months now, and we finally got to see the fruits of our labors on Saturday. Set-up took 4 hours the Friday before, and on Saturday, we were there for 10 hours in the scorching sun! It was a lot of hard work, but SO worth it!

The band "CROSSROADS" performed for the entire event.
Decorations I made for the Pie Making booth.
Robby got put in jail. He had to complete a word search to get out. Haha!We sawed through a log together! Took way longer than we anticipated though...
Sam (intern) & Whitney (recreation coordinator)
We got our faces painted too.
And we played house in a real teepee.
The mayor and Miss Provo were at our event as judges for the pies.
We sat in handmade willow chairs and rode in a covered wagon.
And Robby bought a frozen banana covered in sprinkles. Can't believe I've never had this before!
The crew that planned and helped out with the event (minus Robby, of course who was a HUGE help). It was a huge success. We planned for 3,000 people and about that many showed up!
Happy Pioneer Day!

(My lesson and our talks on Sunday went well too even though we were up all night preparing. Glad it's over!)