This campground parade was inspired by the 4th of July parades at Rocky Point Campground (Lake Almanor, California), and Ponderosa Campground (Butt Lake, CA). In typical Utah tradition, though, we had the parade on the 3rd to avoid conflict of Sabbath Day activities. The weather was perfect yesterday and it is raining today. Don called all the reservations last week to invite them to join in on the parade. We decorated the golf cart and found a music CD with appropriate music (John Phillip Sousa, military marching bands, etc).
We also had a siren noise maker. We used that and our horn to signal the start of the parade. As you can see, Grizzly Adams was our grand marshall. We drove around Loop B to gather people. The flag team from the smaller group joined us first. These kids were die-hards! They probably walked 4 miles today! Before we headed down the hill, some of their younger cousins had joined them. We had to slow down as we climbed the first hill because they were straggling a little. Don said, ‘throw some candy out’. So I did and they made it up that hill with no problem. hahaha – I was thinking they were already getting tired but maybe they were just losing focus?
We even had a rodeo queen on her horse!
As we started in Loop A, everyone started to join in.
Trying to go slow enough that the walkers could keep up was challenging because the ones on scooters were right on our tail. Of course, we’d throw candy on the upside of every hill to help them ‘stay focused’ 🙂
They don’t ‘really’ look like they’re having fun, do they? Maybe they are too focused on when the next candy bomb is coming? Helmets are good.
There was even a nice spectator who passed out candy to the participants! And look at the great decorations on this bike!
These cousins look like twins on their matching trikes. Awesome decorations! They even have baskets for the candy they picked up!
I can’t remember if we went around Loop A 2 or 3 times but I think they would have gone around again if we hadn’t given up. I was running out of candy, though, and wanted to make sure everyone got some. So we stopped at the top of the hill and passed out the rest of the candy. We passed out Thank You toys (frizbee’s, bubbles and light sticks) to the kids later in the day. We all had a fun time!
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