Today was the annual North Attleboro Santa Parade and it was happening rain or shine. Unfortunately the heavens chose rain today. There is nothing more sad than watching people throw candy from cars and floats so halfheartedly and seeing that same candy land in the puddles in the gutters. And not one person there to snatch it up. That is what we witnessed while watching the annual Santa Parade. We bundled up Eva.
We headed downtown to watch the parade. We also got a late start because I pretty much passed out on the bed while reading Brisinger. Allison woke me around 3:20pm. The parade started at 3:00pm. We did get to see at least 3 of the local Dance Schools. (There are like 50 of them in town). We also got to see the most important part of the parade. No, not Santa but rather the EGL car. EGL stands for Edward G. Lambert. Ed was my best friend’s father. He was also the head of the North Attleboro Santa Parade and each year he would be the very last car in the parade. And in the words of the Lambert boys “The Parade isn’t over till the Buick rolls by.” Ed’s son Neil drove the car this year. He was all smiles when he saw us.
I took my camera and figured I would get a shot or two during the parade. I did I got quite a few and there were some worth posting. I posted them to Flickr in the North Attleboro Santa Parade tag set. Taking Photos in the rain sucks especially if you don’t have something to cover your camera. I need that I have got to get a rain cover for my camera. I also should have taken off the polarizing filter that I had forgotten was on the camera until after I was done shooting. Oh well, at least I got the shot above. I did a little editing in Photoshop to isolate the parts in color that I really liked.
Today we took Eva to visit with Allison’s grandparents, both sets. We had a nice morning in and slept late. We needed a little extra sleep. Then we headed up to Fitchburgh, MA. We went to John and Eva’s house where Bob and Jackie met us and the 7 of us enjoyed an afternoon of visiting, pizza and brownies. The Great-Grandparents were thrilled to spent the time with Eva. She was so cute. Eva is walking and talking a bit now and she has a very nice sense of comedic timing. She really has a good understanding of what we ask of her and it just amazes people.
After a wonderful afternoon we headed home and stopped at the Solomon Pond Mall. I am pretty anti-Black Friday because of the huge displays of greed but we were stopping to return something and I can get behind getting money back. The trip turned into a little more than a return though. I had been sitting in the car with Eva because she passed out 2 minutes into the ride home. The kid had been going non stop since 8:30am. Allison texted me that Stride Rite was having a sale of buy one pair get the second at 50% off. Eva is walking now and she needs some actual shoes so I brought her into the mall and we picked out two very cute pairs of shoes. I have two photos of Eva getting shoes, man I am in trouble now. We picked out two very cute pairs that my mom said she would buy for her for Eva’s birthday. When mom comes home with the Christmas Tree tomorrow she’ll see Eva in some very cute footwear.
I’m off to Watch the Psych Christmas Episode. I think they did one last year too. I love that show.
I hope that you remember that I have two contests happening right now. One is to choose the 12 photos from this past year that should be part of the 2009 Photo-A-Day Calendar and the other is for a Digital Photo Frame from Edge Tech Corp. Easy to enter and you have 2 more days.
