okay so here comes our week end! The town decided this year that they were going to have a light parade along with turning the lights on at the old mill park. Kecia and I had this great idea to be in the parade. Any way, we started working on the "float" on Friday afternoon and had it all finished by around 5:00 on Saturday. In tradition with the celebration, Santa makes a visit so we had to go see him in the afternoon before the parade and lighting started. Decorating was fun for the kids and the adults didn't mind it either. The parade had 33 entries in it and the streets were lined with people. It was very fun and there was alot of participation from the community. We played our instruments, and had every intention of playing Christmas music, but we ended up playing the Orange Blossom Special through the parade because people were yelling and clapping and dancing in the streets! Duncan played his "shingle bells"- don't ask me why he calls them that- and he kept pretty darn good time with the beat. It was a fun event and everyone had a good time. To top it all off, we were the Grand Prize winners of the parade,which was voted on by the spectators of the parade! Best part was, we didn't even know that they had prizes for the winners so the kids were all excited that they "won the parade"! Only trouble is, what are we going to do next year? Any way, after the parade got over we walked through the old mill park to look at the lights and took some pictures. The city has done a really nice job decorating and it makes for a fun family outing.