Pioneer Day

Yesterday Todd and I had the opportunity to go up to St. Anthony to see their Pioneer Day Parade. It's usually celebrated on July 24th but since that was a Thursday it ended up on Saturday. It was actually quite fun. They had some pretty cool floats. We were thinking they'd be more pioneer themed things, but in a sense they were. I guess when we think pioneer we think the women wearing the long dress with bonnets. But they made it more with how all those that have settled America are pioneers. It was neat.








They started the parade with a bunch of army tanks. The one at the top kept spraying a bunch of water.


Horses were a reoccurring theme. They had some real pretty ones. We thought these ones were cool cause they had a checkerboard on their rears!

I thought having old hursts were weird, but it was kind of neat to see them. The old buggy even had a casket in it, but due to the reflection you can't see it.





Good ol' John Deer.

Here are just a bunch of the different floats they had:

(if you click on them, you can see a bigger picture)

Here's the "Grand Prize" float:



I thought it was a cool float. They have George Washington praying on one side and Joseph Smith and the First Vision on the other side.

One thing we learned from going to this parade is that if you want any of the candy, you need to have kids. There was a group a kids a little bit down from us and then us. They would throw stuff to the kids, look at us, and then turn to the other side of the street and start throwing!! How rude, but we still got a little candy. I think some people had a little sympathy for us.

Todd going out into the street to get some candy that was thrown to us, but didn't quite make it.