ethan's parade through the city

Ethan's T-ball team was fortunate enough to make an entrance in our four-day city celebration last weekend.

They joined about a dozen other teams and marched the one-mile parade circuit.

The actual parade was fun and easy-going. . .

But the hour and a half wait up until it was our time to walk was excrutiating.

Not only were we supposed to be there an hour early, but our group was #58 out of 61.

During our wait, Ethan did a lot of complaining, and grumbling, and murmuring.

And playing in the dirt.

And uhh, this.

But luckily, we had a little bit of entertainment while we waited. Big Red came by for a quick picture.

Ethan pointed out this rainbow in the sky while we waited too.

As we waited for our turn, the 1st-57th parade entries made their way back to us, before we even started. So we had up front seats for that. Can you say. . . support hose?

I guess there was a Parade of Boxers, which is pretty cool.

High School ROTC looking good.

High School cheerleaders, knowing they look good.

And the band, more up my alley. LOL

Not quite sure what this is.

Ethan enjoyed waving and high-fiving the people as he passed.

I was suprised that we only passed 3 families that we knew. I guess 9am parades on cool December mornings aren't our thing in this town. There were a lot of people there, just not a lot that we knew.

I was at my wits' end by the time we made it back to our car at 10 in the morning. And I still had two baseball games (at the same time in different sites) to get through and a hubby On Shift. Ahh well. Such is Life with the Boys.