Christmas Parade!!

We just went to the Christmas Parade in a nearby town(grafton), we had heard it was really good so we decided to give it a try. Before the parade we made letters for Santa that we handed to his "helpers" in the parade.
The kids waited so nice for the parade, they also had a fund raiser where Josh got us hot dogs, so that bought us a little time also!!







We got there 45 minutes early and let the kids run around, a lot of people had come early to save spots but we found what we thought was a really good spot, but this is what we saw....



I was soo frustrated because they stood right to the left of us in the road the whole time so we couldn't see anything until it was right in front of us.

Lucie was in Heaven because she got a hug from a snowman, a picture with Cinderella, and Tinkerbell sprinkled her with fairy dust/glitter-my camera wasn't ready for that one. Grant loved getting candy from a pirate, his favorite part was a dancing group from Chicago that had a lot of boys in it. He talked alot about that, and they were very good.














We got soo much candy it looked like halloween again.



When all was said and down, we saw military people, clowns, princesses, pirates, dancers, bands, candy, a HUGE pirate ship, Santa, dogs, a real life walking nativity(with real camels, donkey, Mary, Joseph, Wise men, etc.)-which was really cool. Everyone in the parade was sooo friendly-they would walk up to you, wait for a picture to be taken, they would talk to you. It was a very family oriented parade. The parade was 1 1/2 hours long and it was one of the best parades I have been to. There were soo many different things there, yet we didn't get alot of flyers and junk. It says a lot if you can keep Lucie's attention for 1 1/2 hours. Anyone local I would highly suggest the Grafton Christmas Parade for next year!!