The 24th of July is a holiday here in Utah known as Pioneer Day. It's when we celebrate the arrival of the pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley. As part of the festivities, there is a huge parade in downtown Salt Lake. The week before the parade, all of the floats are on display at an expo center in Sandy. I decided to take the kids down and see what it was all about. That place was crazy! There was a high school marching band performing (which echoed like mad in that place), balloon artists and clowns making balloon animals for the kids, face painting, a couple of games, and of course the floats. I didn't get too many pictures since I did this outing as the sole adult and pretty much had my hands full just keeping all three kids close by and making sure they weren't run over by some of the over-eager float viewers. Yes, that really was happening.
The floats were amazing! It's so cool to see them up close and really notice the details and see how much work is put into them. Many of them had moving parts and played music. We walked around to see all of the floats, got the kids' faces painted (or arm in Jonah's case), and got balloon animals for each of them.
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| Jonah got a spider on his wrist, Lilly got a tiger eye, and Jayne got a ladybug on her forehead (she didn't want it on her cheek). |
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| Tiger Lilly with her butterfly. |
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| Jonah got a snake balloon. |
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| Jayne showing off her ladybug. It had glitter and everything. |
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