Railroad Days Parade

This past Saturday Teagan and Garrett had a fun opportunity to be in their first parade. They were both walking in the city's Railroad Days Parade. Teagan with her Ecocars team, and Garrett with the intermediate middle school band.

 

The three little boys and I went into town about half an hour to an hour before the parade started (I don't remember which) to walk around a bit an to scope out where the prime parade watching spot would be.

 At first it was a lot of fun. Walking around with all the hustling and bustling parade attendees and parade marchers scrambling to find where they belonged. Watching the carnival rides spin and twirl and roller coaster all around. Smelling the yummy cotton candy, caramel apples, funnel-cakes, and numerous other foods that the various vendors were selling.


 But soon enough they were bored and getting hot and were more than ready for the parade to start!

There were over 60 entrants in the parade, but luckily we didn't have to wait too long before we saw who we were waiting for. Garrett and the middle school intermediate band were probably about 20 floats/entrants back in line. He was playing his French Horn and sweating up a storm in long sleeves and black pants.

 But he did smile at me when he passed by, and later on told me that other than walking a mile and a half in the heat and having his lips numb from playing for so long, he HAD had a fun time in the parade.

 About 5 or 6 entries back came Teagan and her Ecocars Team from the high school. The orange boxcar is the coed team's street legal version, while the lime-green flat one is the girls-only team prototype class entry. (That one won second in nationals getting over 600 miles to the gallon of diesel fuel!) She is on the girls-only team this year with her friend, Dansil, who was driving it.

Scott was walking with the team as well along with Dansil's dad and Scott's friend, Dave. (He and Dave are like long lost twins. They have such similar interests that it is scary sometimes! They text each other throughout the day with new ideas and future inventions and whatevers! It makes me laugh!)

 The boys got some candy that was thrown out from the floats and got to see a SpongeBob float and a pirates float with a real working canon (man was it loud!!). They both got too hot to sit through the whole thing, so we walked home towards the end of it, eating all the best chocolates out of their bags along the way! It was a fun day for all of us!