This weekend is the annual Rhody Festival in our community. Our festivities started with the "Kiddie Parade", in which Andrew's preschool was featured. What that means is that we get Andrew (and the last 2 years it was Carly who was involved) dressed up according to whatever theme the preschool chooses, arrive at the gathering site 45 minutes before the parade is to begin, stand around while the kids begin to get impatient, and then FINALLY slowly walk 1/2 a mile with several hundred other kids, all between the ages of 0 and 10! I'm sure you can begin to imagine the chaos an event like this creates :) This is a big deal in our town, and after 3 years of participating with one child or the other, I have come to the realization that the parade is for the kids and the parents ... however, with the parents walking with their kids, the spectator crowd is rather sparse. I kept laughing to myself as I was marching along behind the preschool kids, thinking that those who really wanted to watch the event were actually participating in it. I guess that says a lot for our town. We like parades - not to watch them, but to walk in them, and convince ourselves that others are watching us. We even have a Halloween parade, where the main stretch through town is closed off for the afternoon so that anyone in costume (and even those who aren't) get to parade down the road and express their artistic creations. Ok, enough said ... on to the pictures