Community Parade

Many cities have homecoming parades for their local high schools. Where we live they have a community parade. For many years there was only one high school (up until 1995 there were only 4 schools total in the entire district). Then the city began to boom. When they built the second high school they decided rather than having competing parades, they would combine them into one larger community parade. Now the school district has 9 high schools (and more being built - currently 73 total schools in the district). That is a huge growth in just 20 years. We didn't know all of this history when we went to our first community parade. We only had about 45 minutes to watch before we had other plans. We assumed that 45 minutes was plenty of time for a community parade. We had no idea what we were in for.

There are school floats for homecoming court, organizations, bands, cheerleaders, etc. There are firetrucks, police cars, community leaders, etc. There are businesses sponsoring floats, community groups, and on and on. Here the kids wave to clowns.

A local snow cone stand gave out snow balls (you can see one in Sweet Son's hand) which the kids thought was hilarious. Then they saw Frosty and wanted to give the snow back to him so he wouldn't melt. Awwww

We already have the parade on our schedule for next year. We will set aside the entire morning because we want to see more than just 2 bands. I can't even imagine how long the entire parade will be, but I know our kids will love it.