



The pride of Rockford. I always love to witness the royalty doing the 'prevent carpal tunnel' waves. I wonder who came up with that.

This is MM's absolute favorite part of the parade. You can actually hear her screaming and cheering a mile away, even above the roar of these go-carts. They do a precision driving act that is fun to watch.


I know that guys will put motors on just about anything imagineable; but doing it on an over-sized grocery cart is odd. Coborn's is the local supermarket in Delano.

I thought Gino would appreciate a shot of some more of the hot chicks in this parade. I think they were tossing out their phone numbers instead of candy.

The highlight of our day. This is our MN republican senator--Norm Coleman. He was going to walk right by, when suddenly he was drawn to some wild screaming and whooping from the woman sitting next to me; who happened to be Mocha-momma. He beelined right to her and shook our hands. His entourage were all wearing t-shirts that had a circle on the front with just "Norm, 08" in it. I told him he needed to get his people to come up with something a little spiffier, and he replied he'd get on it, maybe get a contest going. If he does do something like that, you'll know where he got the idea.


Can any parade really be considered complete without Elvis. I think not.




This is just a sampling, they had probably over a hundred different units in the parade. I imagine the participants were just trashed at the end. It was around 90 degrees, and there was no breeze to speak of. We went right to the pool after we got home and cooled off. I think we're going to pass on the fireworks tonight, they're past my bedtime and I have to work in the morning. (it's a bear getting old, I remember the days when I'd party until 4am and get to work by 8)
4 comments:
Man! I'm jealous! I'm pretty sure I saw the lamest parade in the US. It was just one really really long commercial.
Those are some nice, old fashioned small town photos again!
Lol, great read.
watch it greybeard!
i hear grandparents day is around the corner, and i have a blog, and pictures...
(insert evil laugh here)
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