For the Fourth of July, we had two options: ride on the Democratic Party’s float in the Boone parade or go participate in the new age-y alternative puppet parade in Todd. Barrow wanted to ride on the float and Strummer wanted to go be with the puppets. So we split up and I took Strummer to Todd. We had a great time. Here we are having a pre-parade snack at the General Store:
The parade actually ends at the park across from the General Store, so we hiked from there up to the beginning of the parade which was a big field where people were gathering with their costumes and puppets:
There was a Earth-theme for the parade, so they had costumes and puppets that corresponded to land, flora, water, and humankind. They had lots of puppets, flags, and costumes for everyone to use. I got a blue (water) flag and Strummer picked out a sea otter puppet:
So we marched in the middle of the ‘water’ section and sometimes Strummer pretended to have her sea otter swim in the blue and green fabric banner that represented the sea:
Sometimes we traded so that she could carry the blue flag:
So Strummer actually hiked the parade route twice (there and back) and never complained. On the contrary, she was blissed out. We got the park at the end and had a burrito, corn and watermelon, and then went to check out the really big puppets. She liked peering underneath to see how they worked, and she wanted me to take her picture holding the hand of the big blue one:
And then she danced a jig:
After dinner, we had a little fireworks display. I think the highpoint of that was the girls having their own sparklers:
(I like that Barrow is wearing a Hockey Night in Canada shirt on the 4th).
It was a very good day.
k-
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