Annual Christmas Parade

Every year, the first weekend of December our town has their Annual Christmas parade. This year, it was wet! I actually waited until the last possible second to head uptown for fear that it would start raining again. Because it had been raining the entire week, I think participation in the parade was slim and Adam's favorite part (the shriners and their cars) weren't in the parade.

Ava went to the parade last year and wore an outfit very similar to this one only it was pink instead of red...this year she was much more interactive. She would wave to every single person that went by and when she wasn't waving she was clapping. I think the parades at Disney helped prepare her for this one.

About half-way through the parade it began to drizzle...it wasn't super bad- except for the fact it was cold outside so it made the fact it was raining a little worse, but we walked from Nana's house and we knew her wood-burning stove had the house nice and warm, waiting for us to stop by. The parade finished and I must say I was very disappointed. Last year's was much better and I'm sure the weather had a lot to do with it, but maybe next year- the Jack-in-the-box will be back in action after several years of retirement and maybe Ava will be the first person to "crank" it back up- haha!!! (That was a hint mom and dad!)