I really doubt there were more than a dozen! We all packed up Saturday morning and went to Jarom's last parade of the summer - the Days of '47 Youth Parade. It was a very warm day. It was supposed to get up to 100 degrees, I heard, but I'm not sure if it did. The good thing is that we found shade to sit in and we remembered to bring our chairs this time. I'm going to get the hang of this parade thing yet.
Did you know that the Days of '47 Youth Parade is the biggest youth parade in the country? That's what the announcer said. Longest running, too, I think.
When the Days of '47 Royalty drove past, Meagan and I were disappointed that they weren't wearing big funky, hoop-skirted dresses like they did in the 1947 Centennial Parade. We know, because the dresses are on display at the DUP musuem. To the best of my recollection, one of them was white with sequined seagulls and crickets on it, one was blue with beehives and bees and one was red with covered wagons. Maybe they'll break them out for the Bi-Centennial parade, huh? Instead, they were wearing boring black dresses.
I should upload photos of the parade. I remembered to bring the camera this time. Actually, David remembered. Holly and Katelyn were in the parade, too. I saw them, but they did not see me. I was going to look for them after the parade, but once we found Jarom, David and Cameron were hot and tired and ready to go, so we left.
Alot of the Stakes had cute ideas for dressing up their primary kids to march behind their float. One stake had everyone dressed up as apples with sock puppet worms sticking through a hole in the apple. Why do we think wormy apples are cute?? Holly's stake had their kids with fish hats - and Holly and other adults got to carry cloth waves. One had kids dressed up as pioneers, carrying picture frames. It's a good thing the parade route was fairly short, because some of the little kids were exhausted by the time they got to us. We sat at the end of the parade like we usually do.
We lucked out and got popsicles from the band. Mrs. McBeth begged us to take some because the parade organizers gave the band a ton of popsicles and they were melting. That was a nice end to a hot parade.
Jarom and most of the band went to Lagoon after the parade. Jarom hung around with his friends Todd and Laura at Lagoon, so that was good. I didn't want him to have to wander around Lagoon alone. After he got home, he slept for a long time. I was glad I didn't have to stay out in that heat, but if I were 13 I may have wanted to. Now Cameron, Jarom and Amber have all gone to Lagoon this summer. Poor Meagan.
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Hooray! You posted! Actually, you posted a lot and I'm just now catching up...I've been so busy with Ray's family I haven't been keeping up. I love to hear all about what you and your kiddos are up to, but it makes me miss you. We should do something.
Tell Meagan she can come to Lagoon with us! :) You can come, too if'n you want. (We're not going until Frightmares, though...it's too stinkin' hot!)
Yup. I actually did post. It's amazing. Maybe we should go to Frightmares with you. It would be fun!
since i have so much influence w/the international dup (ha-ha), i shall report your disappointment in their black dresses to our dup company and they can pass the word along. we're glad we got to see jarom in a parade. we tried to record the youth parade on our dish because we went to wesley stewart's funeral during the parade, but we haven't caught on to the recording and it only recorded 26 minutes while we were gone. how is david liking his new council calling?
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