A Night At The Parade.....

One of the fun nights of the summer is going to the Dakota-Thurston County Fair Parade.  It runs down the glorious Dakota Avenue in the heart of South Sioux City.  It is the quintessential county fair parade complete with a marching band, a tractor, fire engines, old guys driving little cars way too fast, horses, and lots and lots of candy.  We perch in the same spot each year and take it all in.

Janet Hofer and her sister Cindy were in town along with their daughter Julie, husband Brad, and their two kids (BTW - cutest two kids in the world).  Dennis was probably off doing some important Vice Presidential duty.  The rest of the normal crowd joined us too - Davidsons and the O's (minus Pat, J-O, and L Jo).

Here are a few of the highlights in pictures......

Sunshine is on the Color Guard (when I was in high school we called it the flag team, but that was in the olden days).  Here's a pic of her crusin down the street with the band.  Her friend Eva, who is the drum major, is also in the pic.....

We started yelling her name, mainly to support her (she feels it is solely to embarrass her).  As we started yelling her name, she started to laugh and her friend Jessica also was cracking up.  You can see Sunshine's face trying to hide from us and Jess laughing at her on the left side of the pic....

Another pic of Jessica finding enjoyment from everyone yelling Sunshine's name.....

We announced to everyone that a firetruck was coming that was spraying water.  Slowly, one by one, several people began to find shelter under a nearby tree - hoping to escape the spray (Eddie Joe, Naomi, and Megan were first)

and then more found shelter..........

And finally the truck came - he was having a lot of fun....

The parade ended with the reigning Rodeo Queen riding on her horse.  She is none other than Cora D.  It was a lot of fun to see her perched on her horse taking in all of the crowd cheering her on as queen.  She'd probably rather be breaking a 2 year old, but her smile showed she was having fun.

Unrelated to the parade, I wanted to demonstrate again what your teenage kids do with your digital camera while your not around.  These are things you find when you go to download your camera.  This time the victim is Baxter - Eddie Joe's favorite stuffed animal.

We're going camping this weekend - we hope to have a great time!