Friday, July 4, 2008
Everyone loves a parade

This morning everyone got up very early and quickly got dressed up in red, white and blue colors. Normally I'd run and hide at this point because I know I'll be dragged in to another crazy human activity but since all my favorite neighbor kids showed up I was far to excited to hide.

As predicted I was dressed up in a flag design bandana and leashed to the scooter. The kids all had their little razor scooters and/or tricycles, the roommate gathered the snack foods and we were off.

It was a short walk to the meeting area for the morning events and at first it looked like only a few people were going to show up, then the massed appeared around the corner. Hordes of adult, kids and dogs all dressed in red, white and blue started to assemble. Then a lead truck with crazy horns and sound effects started us all. The truck was followed by the “Band Wagon” which was a wagon with a sound system. A classic old jeep type pick-up truck took up the third position then some folks and an army fella carried a large banner.

Behind the banner folk followed the dizzying array of red, white and blue clad humans, pets, strollers and bikes. This group included us. The young ones even brought candy to throw to the spectators. I should point out that there weren't very many spectators; most of the neighborhood was in the parade.

The parade ended very near where it started and we all settled down on the lawn for a little entertainment. There was a nice speech about freedom and republic vs. democracy. Then the little humans did a few little skits. It took a few tries to get all the letters to align correctly to spell out "America" but they tried. Then the "I" wandered off for no apparent reason. Very funny. Doughnuts, flavor ice and water were served. I didn't get anything other than water of course. I came within inches of snatching a glazed covered doughnut from a toddler but my human caught me and put a stop to my thieving ways before I could complete my mission.

A few dogs, golden retrievers none the less, got out and followed the parade awhile. They sniffed my butt. They were finally caught by a neighbor of mine and she did find their owners a few hours later. A quartette of yorkie like dogs also escaped but my human knew where they lived so they were returned home after a short chase.

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