Monster bus, that is… Every summer, in our city, around mid-July, Lakefair comes to town. This is a not-so-smallish, small-townish event replete with ferris wheels, fried food, carnies, local bands, karaoke contests, a weekend parade and a Sunday fireworks finale. The weekend parade consists, mostly of festival queens in poofy dresses waving from elaborately festooned floats, cheerleaders and marching bands from local high schools, clowns, dancing troops, and the obligatory bagpipe band (actually one of my favorite things in the parade). For the past several years our church has made an entry in the parade with several incarnations of floats and things. This years float won the grand-sweepstakes trophy. Last year they debuted their monster bus. Remember that “short bus” that was definitely not so cool to ride when you were back in elementary school? Well, they took one of those and made it in to one of the most ridiculously cool buses that many kids have ever seen! They gave it flashing lights, a fresh paint job (but still, good ol’ school bus yellow), one of those big noisy mufflers (can you tell I’m not much of “car person?”), and the biggest monster wheels I have ever seen! This year my two boys were invited to ride on that super cool Monster bus. I’ll confess, I don’t really get the appeal, but my kids were through-the-roof excited to ride on it. They yelled and waved, cheered and hollered from their big-wheeled bus all the way down the parade route. From the response they got, I am guessing that my boys were not the only kids who thought this bus was shout-out-loud cool. Here are just a couple of photos of my goof-balls on the bus:
July 22, 2008 at 4:20 am |
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