Saturday was the Royal City Parade! Nathan always has a fun time. We were hoping Elizabeth would finally enjoy it this year and she did! No meltdowns! The previous 3 years, she's had major meltdowns.
Grandma Pam came down for the morning to watch Nathan in the bike parade! Any little kid that wanted could ride their bike down the parade route right behind the police cars. Nathan had fun doing this!
Nathan finishing his bike parade!
A couple of local celebrity sisters walking the parade route. We're not quite Kate and Pippa Middleton though.
(We were "escorting" Nathan while he rode his bike but he was so far ahead we felt like we were some kind of parade entry.)
The Royal City float was a lego theme this year! The kids really enjoyed that.
Elizabeth likes to sit on Gram's lap.
Everyone having fun watching the parade. Papa Norm is having fun talking to a friend.
Royal High Marching band
The kids LOVED the Ritzville float since it was a Wizard of Oz theme. There were some really great floats!
We went home and took a lunch break after the parade. We celebrated Grandma Pam's upcoming birthday with some cupcakes!
After lunch, we went back to the park to take part in the fun. Here's Elizabeth eating her snow cone. Nathan was off doing jumpy castles and waterslides with Grandma Pam and Laura. I didn't get any pictures!! Instead, I spent 20 minutes waiting in the snow cone line...
Here was the ping pong ball drop. Every year, a local pilot flies his crop duster over the field and drops hundreds of ping pong balls with numbers written on them. The kids all get to pick one up and run in and get a prize. Last year, Nathan actually won a bike! This year, both kids got little toys.
If you look closely at the picture, you can see Nathan running in and Elizabeth and I following him from a distance.
Here's Elizabeth with her ping pong ball. Nathan was kind enough to pick up 2 and give one to her. She wasn't big enough to race out and pick one up before the bigger kids took them all.
Playing with the balloon toy with Papa Norm.
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