We had a great time spending a week with family at the cabin. Not even the threat of our adorable, 3-month old precious little bundle of joy transforming into a screaming carseat banshee at some point during the eight hour drive could have kept us away. Luckily, Eric handled the drive very well. This is the trick - put in a baby songs CD and drive the whole way like you are running from the law. Works like a charm. (One caveat...now I can't get "The Ants Go Marching" out of my head. It's very catchy...the ants go marching one by one, the little one stops to suck this thumb....) This year's parade didn't disappoint - it was as wet and fun as ever. It's just total mayhem and crazy hilarious.
It's tradition and proper parade protocol to do the wave when cars pass by before the parade starts. I often wonder if the people driving by know about the parade. If they don't, do they think we're just spending the afternoon sitting alongside a random mountain road in Idaho doing the wave? I think it would be fun to happen upon a large group doing the wave at passersby. It's never happened to me though. Hmm...note for next year, drive by our group during the wave phase to see what it looks like.
Once the parade started, Brad came up with the ingenious idea to hide behind a tree on the other side of the road, so he could catch water throwing paraders by surprise! Our group was so impressed with Brad's idea, that it sounds like next year we're going to split our group betwen the two sides. It's a whole new world of possibilities for our group now.
We didn't see Nacho Libre this year, but we did see Elvis. Since Elvis wasn't carrying water, we waved and yelled "Happy 4th!"
These suckers weren't so lucky. They had water - game on!
This was a fun float. They were prepared with a trailer full of coolers and super soakers. They unloaded on the first part of our group (sorry Howie, Robin, Shane, Payton) and then when they were filling back up, they reached the second part of our group...Matt, Mitch, Mike, Darin, Shannon, Brad, Jordyn,...you get the picture; they got WET!
It's absolutely hilarious both in sights and sounds; people laughing and then also screaming when getting doused with water, water balloons hitting the trailer, super soakers being unloaded...water flying everywhere up until the point that the float's out of reach. It ends up being quite the onslaught since the 'floats' are moving at super slow parade speed. They're definitely not running from the law.
This guy was having a super fun time. I remember hearing him just laughing while he really got doused by our group. Can't wait for next year's trip!!
