Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Giant Independence Day Parade Post
In a little hamlet about 25 minutes up the road they have an annual Independence Day children's parade. The kids show up and parade down the road with whatever they want. At the end everyone is treated to lemonade, cookies and ice cream. It's sponsored by a little book bank in the town. Today was our first time there. We decorated Emma's cart and crossed our finger and hoped that she'd push it through the parade. It's a pretty short route and the parade is over in about fifteen minutes.

Emma did pretty well but she was distracted by everything going on around her. She fell off the pace early and if we hadn't picked her up and carried her ahead a bit she'd have ended up behind the horses. She was as cute as a button and Mommy was quite proud.

Here's one of the parade participants getting ready to go:


This is Cameron and Emma. They were born a day or two apart and we bump into Cam and her Mom at events a couple of times a year. Unfortunately they don't live here full time, she just visits Grandma here.


Here we have the tail end of the twirlettes and the mob of walkers...


As you can see it's a very casual parade. It's really about the kids having fun and showing off their colors...


The chihuahua momma and more walkers and bikers...


There's my baby!


She's proud of her "preddy" cart.


This is Stu, he loves a good parade. Any excuse to put on his loincloth and pull out his sword.


And we have Uncle Sam...


The video shows you most of the parade in a minute and a half ;)

Written at 12:54 PM by Highlandgal.
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