The Azeala Parade

Shawn and I went to the Parade this morning...I tried to get Gary and Hunter to go but I don't think they were too excited about going so me and Shawn headed out.

Shawn wasn't sure what to think of the parade he just kept looking at me like where are we?
He loved the marching bands though, everytime they went by he would dance.

look at the dog standing on the pony !

This was Shawn telling me no when I said come back here...

He snuck in some little boys chair and thought he was the man

No he didn't eat all that cotton candy, mommy did lol !

Here is the end of the Parade and the Azeala Queen...

Every year they ask a celebrity to be the queen and this year was Barbara Alyn Wood she is also on "One Tree Hill".
The parade was a little too long since they apparently have a pageant for every category under the sun like:
Miss greater North Carolina
mini miss greater north carolina
petite miss north carolina
little miss north carolina
tiny miss north carolina
4th of July queen
Christmas queen
carolina senior sweetheart queen
peanut festival queen
miss castle hayne
spot festival queen
grape festival queen

and thats not even half of them so we had to sit thru all these girls on floats and in cars plus sponsors and clowns and military police it was a loooong parade...I think from now on we will just watch the first hour and then go home.