Parade!

So Apparently Rodeo Weekend is a HUGE deal in Cheney...

It is a whole weekend affair where every store in town has huge sidewalk sales, and the town is basically taken over by mobs and mobs of people from all over the place. Since we live on the main drag but towards the opposite side of town of all the craziness, it wasn't too bad, but next year I will make sure I have money to spend...

We participated in 2 of the events... a huge book sale by the library, which you know isn't a big deal since the Kennewick library has that, and there cheaper.. but I went. It is crazy though, people were buying box after box and it wasn't that great of stuff... but whatever. It was 25 cents for a paper back and 50 cents for a hard back... even kids books and so it was kinda lame. I ended up getting a cross-stitch book, and some children's books to add to my collection for our family library... so basically everything else i saw I wanted I can... you know check out for free.

Than of course, Saturday morning, we walked down and sat on the sidewalk and watched a parade. it wasn't too bad... but most of the events in it were from out of town... here are some highlights...

We stopped at the grocery store on the walk down to grab some drinks and pringles for the event...

When the parade started Daphne remained seated, and Sami got to get out to collect candy... the candy was crap... and I ate all the good stuff and fed some of it to Daphne to keep her happy.

So here are our Rodeo Princesses there were tons... And Sami kept saying... princess mommy princes...

It is a coyote for the local radio station... which I hardly ever listen to because there music is crap!

And along with about 10 sports cars, there were these old cars... promoting the Cheney Museum tour... of old houses and buildings in the area... I'll have to take it sometime... it might be kind of interesting.

And it wouldn't be Cheney with out the forest fire department and "Smokey the Bear" I sung him my song... still remember it from when I was a kid...

I can't begin to tell you how deaf I was by the end of this parade... they had every fire truck in town for the regular fire department and the forest department basically in the parade and these boys next to me kept getting them to honk there horns... that and the train running through every half hour honking it's horn... 4 times as much as it needs too... love Cheney!

This was cool. It was some bagpipe players... it makes me proud of my heritage... and makes me want to go to Scotland... I recorded there playing but I can't figure out how to play videos so maybe later!

And this was taken at the doctors office.. it's hilarious to me... Sami does this all the time... but she pinches different than I do... her hands are flipped... it cracks me up! She is such a cutie... she has her moments as all kids do, but some days It's like who are you? She is just about completely potty trained wears panties all the time... but she gets lazy still and goes through some days a new pair of panties each time she goes potty... oh I cut her bangs... they look super cute... i will show you later!

Well hope you are having a good summer. Check out my other blog simplysara.blogspot.com to check out what I have been up to!