Fair Days Parade

I swear every Fair Days we go grocery shopping right before the parade, so we get caught in detoured Main Street traffic trying to get home. This year I made sure we went grocery shopping earlier in the day, and, being free in the late afternoon, we decided to bike over to Heber for the parade. The kids had a blast.  Zeke is always in the Swiss Days parade rather than watching it, so it was a fun new thing for him to sit on the curb and see all of the entries and catch candy (and fliers, popsicles, water bottles...).

We saw horses; lots and lots of horses. Zeke started counting and got up into the twenties before he saw something else fun to look at.

We saw tractors (isn't this purple tractor awesome?).

There were even a few floats, which I love.

And several fire trucks. (Zeke took this picture while I was keeping Nora out of the path of the parade vehicles.)

And Zeke is awesome because he really got out there and collected candy for himself and Nora. He is by nature rather hesitant, and we all know that he who hesitates doesn't get any prizes out of a pinata, or a parade, or anything else where there are lots of grabby little hands. But on this night he did a great job of both being assertive and sharing with the rest of us.