Benefit Ride was a HUGE Success

The Under the Angel’s Wings Rescue Benefit ride was a wonderful success! The weather turned out to be the perfect day. The sun was shining it was not too hot and it was just beautiful! We had two separate rides and I think everyone truly enjoyed themselves and kept talking about how much fun they had.

The San Bernardino County Search & Rescue was also there having a training day so we got to meet a lot of them along with their Coordinator Dave who we talked a lot with throughout the day and he passed along brochures and info about UAWR to all of the Search and Rescue people in order to help spread the word about UAWR. Thank you Dave for all your help and support. The best part was I ended up knowing a few people who were with the Search and Rescue and I ran into my BEST friend from kindergarten while we were there it was amazing to see her and her horse Tucker who I had not seen in what 13 years..? He is just as cute as always! A walk down memory lane....

The raffle prizes were great. It was AMAZING what we had donated for the Raffle there were :

Cowboy Magic Products Thank you Jim Cummings of Charmar Land & Cattle Co/Cowboy Magic for your kind and generous donation! Thank you also to Geno the farrier who got us in contact with Jim.

We had around 20 of the decorative plates with horses on them I personally won Native Dancer. Thank you to Louise & Ken for donating all of those.

There were some really neat Dog and Cat record keeping books that were a great hit and scarves also, Thank Rose Leavitt for donating those. I also thank Linda & Margie who purchased the books that were left over at the end of the day.

We had some cool tail bags, Thank you to Linda Powell for those.

If I have forgotten someone or other items that were a part of the raffle I apologize there was SOOO much stuff I think everyone walked away with at least something from the raffle which was great!

The bake sale was yummmmy and I would like to say Thank you to Sue Zurawik, Vivette Lund, Linda Powell & Friends, Alison Paylen, My Dad, Lisa, Niki Angelies, and Cheryl Tokle for all your deserts they were all wonderful. I must tell everyone though they missed out on THE BEST carrot cake ever. I will not devulge who made it or she might have people lining up at her door but I told her she is the official UAWR function carrot cake maker from now on cause it was GOOOOOOOOOOOOODD!!!!!! I took several pieces home for myself thank you!

We can not forget the WONDERFUL lunch we all had!!! YUM Chicken and Beef Fajitas. I think everyone went back for seconds, thirds, and maybe even more but who was counting..... lol.

Thank you to Schwans (the little yellow truck that drives door to door delivering groceries) for donating all of the Chicken for the fajitas.

Thank you Amber Bevel who made us all the Best Fajitas in the world.

Thank you Ernie & Lana the RRT President and Secretary for feeding us all. They did a great job keeping the line moving and making sure we all had hot food on our plates and full bellies.

Thank you to Dottie who was the realtor in Yucaipa who did the pre-ride & got us in touch with Dave of the Search and Rescue. Also, Thank you to Barbara of RRT who got us in touch with Dottie.

Thank you to Ed & Melanie who pre-rode the ride two different times and also lead the longer ride on the day of the benefit.

Thank you to Stacy Payne who helped with loading and unloading things from the trailer.

And my HUGE THANK YOU to Vivette Lund and Sue Zurawik for putting all of this together and make a great, fun, and successful day for everyone. You two I know worked your hineys off to make it all happen!!! I can not express how much I appreciate what you have done for UAWR.

Thank you also to Vivette's friend Pam who was there to help keep Vivette calm and another HUGE Thank you from us all to Vivette's husband Don. Vivette says your "The BEST husband EVER!!!"

I can not forget Niki who helped me feed horses the morning of the ride so we could get out of here on time whew you were a life saver and we did really have a great time baking together!!

Thank you to everyone who came out and participated and for being a part of the first UAWR Benefit ride. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves as much as I did! A huge Thank You to everyone from RRT who helped to make this very successful ride happen and we WILL be doing it again so check the UAWR website for the latest updates.