Ok - So it was Handcart Days..... hmmm -there's a parade downtown. What's a parade? Tales, come on... haven't you ever been to a parade? So we packed everybody up (we had Sam and Laura with us) and headed downtown so Tales could see his very first American hometown parade. Laura was sporting her new "do".
Wow! How is that for coincidental! One of the very first floats was the one belonging to LDS Business College. It just happened to be Tales' very own alma mater. Laura and Sam wanted to stay in the sun so they could pick up the candy that was thrown to them. We finally convinced Laura to go home with us. As we were walking back to the car, we had to stop to cross the parade route.
Lo and behold! Here was Shon and Mel and all the kids - Isabel, Max and Jake. We turned around and saw Heather, Joe, Elsie, Cy, Andrew and Caleb. It was a family reunion right there in front of the mortuary. We should have gone inside and picked out our caskets!
We stayed there for the rest of the parade and then Shon told us where to go for the best view of the fireworks. We all joined up together to watch fireworks up at the junior high school. It turned out to be fun evening - and all because Tales had never seen a parade. Go figure.
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To clarify the story a bit, Tales (Tallies) is the year-and-a-half husband of our niece, Mindy, and he has been in the USA for a few years, but mostly in North Carolina. We are enjoying having them at our house to play for a time. That's the first parade I have been to in ten or fifteen years. We had a great time even though I say I have a phobia of crowds. Janene
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