I Love A Parade!

We took John's mom (who was in town on business for the week) down to Portland on Friday and his father flew in that evening. We all stayed at my folk's place and woke up early in the morning for the Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade (thank you to Mom and Dad for waking up at the crack of dawn and scouting out and keeping a spot for us on the parade route). We warmed up breakfast burritos (yes, they were New Mexican inspired ones with green chilies, just not authentic NM green chilies, boo hoo)I had made the night before, bundled up and headed down to our location early so we could people watch and see the pre-parade festivities. One of the highlights were the plastic Dora and Spiderman blowup dolls Grandma bought for the kids. Gabi was in love with her Dora doll and talked to her throughout the parade!

















We were very concerned about the weather holding out for us, but aside from a few misty sprinkles, we were okay, the sun even came out a few times. We all enjoyed the parade immensely. Emilio danced and directed the bands for the better part of the morning while Gabi watched from her mini U of I chair with Dora in tow.

Both kids took a great nap after the parade and so did Grandpa! Us gals, my mom, Sharon and I ran to the Adidas outlet and scored on some new digs.

Later in the afternoon we took everyone (all but my Dad who was working away on his new backyard fence) to the Mt. Scott swimming pool! We had a blast going down the swirly slide, lazy river and whirlpool.

In the evening we had a nice BBQ, roasted S'Mores and played cards, Hand and Foot to be exact.




We had a very nice breakfast at the Cadillac Cafe on Sunday morning before John and Sharon had to fly back to Chicago. What a fun filled, packed weekend!