I....saac loves a parade

Our little college town threw a Halloween parade this afternoon, so we decided to again take advantage of this unbelievable weather and check it out. They closed off Main St. from 2:30 till after 5 for the parade, followed by trick-or-treating at the local businesses. Here are Isaac and I waiting for the parade:



We met up with our new buddies, Art and Sarah and 8-month-old Ella, to sit together for some parade-watching. I'm sure you can guess what Ella is for Halloween:



We really had no idea what to expect from a small-town Halloween parade, nor how Isaac would feel about sitting and watching stuff for an indefinite period of time. The Newark parade? It totally rocked. It was almost an hour long, there were FOUR marching bands, lots of cute girl scouts and boy scouts, lots of baton twirling and dancing, lots of costumes and cool cars. And beauty queens. Here we are waving at some beauty queens:



And Isaac? Well, about three weeks ago he began a love-affair with watching cars and trucks go by on the street. We can spend a good twenty minutes just sitting on our street corner together, with me naming all the vehicles that go by. Turns out if you pepper a constant stream of vehicles with a few marching bands, you can easily stretch out that attention span to parade-length. In short, he dug it the whole time. Parades are apparently made solely with his entertainment needs in mind.