Luckily, there was no rain on this parade

[soc_puppet]

Local high school had its homecoming parade tonight, just up the street from where my parents and I live, so I had the bright idea of inviting the niblings to watch it. I thought the odds were about fifty-fifty that my brother and SIL would be into it, and it turns out they were on board! Mom and Dad picked the kids up from daycare a couple hours before the parade, and my brother and SIL showed up around thirty minutes before it was scheduled to start (starting time being at least another fifteen minutes before I expected any of the parade to get in our range).

Overall, it went pretty well! We got free hotdogs from a near-by church, the kids seemed to have a good time, and the grown-ups also seemed to have a decent time with the kids and in general. It didn't go exactly the way I pictured it, but things involving two kids under five years old seldom do, and probably won't even after they're both in double digits. I may try to remember this for next year as well.

Oh, on a very interesting note, the parade was briefly interrupted by a fire truck going upstream through it. First time I've ever seen that happen.


On a completely different topic, I remain deeply irritated that "geoduck" is not pronounced the way it's spelled.

Comments

[gwydion]

fire truck going upstream through it.

O.o

[soc_puppet]

The parade was a good 75% just people walking, hardly any vehicles or floats, so I'm given to understand that they just moved out of the way. It was still interesting that it happened at all, organizationally; while it's possible that the destination was only accessible via the parade route, the road the parade was on has a lot of connecting streets, and I'd like to think that enough people were informed ahead of time for it not to be an issue. Apparently not so!

[jesse_the_k]

Our local parades often feature the biggest firetruck as an undecorated float -- I can't imagine the street layout where the working truck traveling upstream would be fastest.

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French settler colonialists have a lot to answer for: their transcriptions of various Indigenous words often leave me mystified.

Guess how you pronounce: Chequamegon

[soc_puppet]

It was the (a?) smaller of our Homecoming parades, with hardly any vehicles involved, and no real "floats" to speak of; only some cars, not all of which were even open-top. Luckily, probably because the parade was mostly people on foot, it seems like the firetruck made it through okay.

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I am unsurprised that I guessed wrong, good grief.