First Parade

Last Friday, Samuel was invited to see his first parade!  Mom and Dad's community was celebrating their annual Walleye Festival and they had a parade though town, followed later that night by fireworks.  Mom and Dad's house backs up to the parade route and their neighbors told them that they would have a great view of the fireworks from their front yard.  So, they invited us to join them.  The parade was a cute small-town parade featuring the high school marching band, lots of local businesses, firefighters, girl scouts dressed as cookies, and all the local political candidates.  Samuel got to wear a sticker for one of the candidates.  He was clearly very excited...

We stayed up for the fireworks and since they were a couple of miles away, they weren't too loud, so they didn't scare Samuel.  He seemed to notice them a little, but was too preoccupied with "eating" his hands to care.