I pulled into the Yoboy RV Resort Friday afternoon about 4:30.
I was hoping to catch a mess of fish from the Resort’s pond & have a fish fry for supper, but that just wasn’t gonna happen, so we had to go to the Fish Camp instead. It was probably better than what I coulda cooked up anyways ‘cuz of the variety of seafood they had.
After hours of feasting, partying, & decorating buggys while the poor men were working hard at other things, we finally called it a night. We had to get up early so we could leave by 6:00 to make it to Dallas & find our parking & staging areas. I had to wait til we got to the parking lot to decorate my buggy ‘cuz it was hauled on an open trailer.
The others
Bryan & Annie aka Mr. & Mrs. Snowman, or wait, I think he is Mr Scrooge
Russell & Christy
Their baby
Billy & Gloria
Their buggy
There was much confusion after we arrived & met with parade officials. Without telling our group, they had put us down as 2 separate entries & separated us, so Chris, Justin, & Llama Llama Red Pajama were number 11 & we were number 36. Justin was really excited about riding with the llama!
The parade officials provided a banner for Chris’s cute little buggy, so the Texas Manx Club banner was moved to Greg & Susan’s buggy because they were to be our great leaders!
We finally made it to our staging area.
They had to bring in the police to control our wild bunch! Yes, I was drinking tea & chewing gum, a big no no once we were in our staging area!
We moved up a little closer to the parade starting point & were entertained by several bands & drill teams. They were good & fun to watch.
Other entries
A lady came over & grabbed my camera to take my picture.
After the parade, we went back to the Yoboy RV Resort & had a great BBQ lunch.
I had to leave a little before 3:00 so I could get to another parade in Winona by 5:00. The skies all around were dark, but I never got into any rain on my way home. I got home, put the buggy in the garage, jumped into the truck & flew to Winona behind the slowest moving cars ever.
Finally, I was able to pull into a parking space, lucky to find one!
I arrived 5 minutes before the parade was to begin, so I fought the gathering crowd & walked towards the staging area to see if I could get a little smoochy smooch from someone, but I was a little too late.
I started to duck behind the trees, but then I realized this police car was the beginning of the parade. Whew, that was a close one!
Here’s some of the parade entries:
Here’s what I came to see:
Finally, this carriage brought the main fat man!
Something hit me & I realized it was raining candy! Everyone threw handfuls of candy at me! I gathered most of it up & threw it to kids as I walked back to my truck. I still had on my Santa hat so they just thought I was part of the parade!
A little different from the Dallas parade, but just as good!
It was a wonderful weekend!
Here's the link to the rest of my pictures:
http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t184 ... ?start=all
Georganne
