Nan's Notes: Everyone Loves a Parade!

Saturday morning, we headed out to our reserved bleacher seats (yeah!) to meet Jason, Melissa and Mel's sister, Jennifer, and her family from Kingwood. As we were waiting, a gentleman who we believe could be the "real Santa" came walking by. Zach wanted to double check the information he had gotten from Mrs. Claus the night before. Yep ... nice list!

He asked Santa to take a picture with him and he was very agreeable. Luke snuck into the background, but didn't confirm his status.

Zach, monkeying around with Jerry

There are many cool things about this parade, but the clowns are awesome. Tons of clowns are hanging around the bleachers, playing tricks on the kids and taking pictures.

We're all here ... when does this start?

Starbucks? Check. Reindeer antlers? Check.

Here comes Thomas the Train

Dancing cowboys and cowgirls

Old McDonald had a farm ...

Llama, Llama Red Pajamas ...

I have to be honest, I don't have a clue who this character is, but the colors were good!

And then the Star Wars characters arrived on the scene ...

Storm Troopers ...

Imperial Guard (I think)

Darth Vader ...

Captain America ...

And who wouldn't love a Dolly Parton gingerbread cookie?

Here's a whole troop of gingerbread men ...

Bob the Builder - YES we CAN!

This bat character looks a lot cuter than the creatures living next door!

The Adolphus float ...

The Green Lantern ...

Elmo and a fish bowl

These white horses were pretty impressive

The Hardin Band - these guys are good

For a while, we were surrounded by "men in yellow hats"! Zach had hung out with Curious George at the party the night before.

Everyone had a good time with the passing of the Bubble Train

And here is the conductor ...

Giant nutcracker!

This clown was part of the dinner act and he was trying to get something going with the beauty queen, which gave his wife a reason to "plank him" with a board.