Megan's First Parade

It had been a long time since either John or I had gone to a parade, so we decided to join my parents at Mayer's parade this afternoon.  Luckily, my parents were able to snag a space under a shade tree right at the beginning of the parade route.  Megan had never been to a parade before and she absolutely loved it.  She didn't run up to grab the candy that was thrown but we had plenty of people hand it to us (an advantage of sitting with an older crowd), plus my dad did plenty of running for the candy himself. 

One of the first things that was handed out were freeze pops (and actually about four more exhibits gave out the same thing).  Megan quickly ate up this orange one and then started a cherry one.  What a great thing to eat outside on a hot day.

Megan saw all of us waving to the people on the floats and it didn't take long until she was waving just as much as we were. 

It turns out that all of that waving paid off.  We had a family sitting right in front of us, but we actually had several people walk around them to drop candy and other snacks into Megan's lap.  Here are her big handfuls of tootsie rolls and teddy grahams.

Megan liked so many different exhibits.  One of them was people riding around on horses shooting guns.  We thought she'd be scared but she actually laughed when the shots were fired.  She loved seeing all the animals including dogs riding in the trucks, someone dressed up in a cow suit, and then the horses in the picture below.  After seeing the dogs she was "woofing" for the next 10 minutes!