Parade Preparations

It's been a crazy week.  We worked Monday and had a very busy day with lots of people passing thru. 

Tuesday was ladies day out - lunch and shopping.  We started out at Halepaska's bakery for soup and sandwiches.  Next we stopped at Hall Electric and Design Center.  This is a very high-end furniture store, with very expensive chandeliers, mirrors, furniture, etc.  They also have 24' decorated Christmas trees throughout the store.  All were for sale, as well as the ornaments.  Most ornaments sold for around $20.00 apiece. I sat on a couch that was on sale for $15,000, and it wasn't even comfortable!

Our next stop was the local Shop the World.  They, too, had Christmas decorations and trees for sale, but much cheaper.

I could only get about 2/3 of the tree in the picture.  The snowmen were about 18" tall.

Most of the week has been spent preparing for the Christmas parade.  Erik decided that the float was going to be a "camping" scene, with a golf cart following the float during the parade.  He had a design in mind, but didn't want to share with those of us who were actually building and decorating it until Wednesday this week. 

There is no theme for this year's parade, but one of the requirements is to have LOTS of lights on all floats.  Since we were so busy working on Monday, we didn't get to (or have to) work on the float until Tuesday and Wednesday.  Thursday we worked, but it was a very boring work day.  The phone only rang 3 times all day and the weather was too nice to sit inside.  I read by book on one of the rocking chairs while Mark and Erik decorated the golf cart all day.

This is just the first part of the decorations.  Today Erik worked on it for a few more hours.  I'll have to post more pictures tomorrow right before we get on the float. I'm very excited, I've never been in a parade before.

Today it was 82 degrees, sunny, and no wind so we decided to head to Saxet Lake with our new kayaks.  As luck would have it, when Mark got his kayak out of the bag, he set it down on a fire ant hill.  Fortunately he didn't get stung. 

It took about ten minutes to get them blown up and into the water. 

We had a great time and can't wait to take them out again, only next time we'll head over to the Gulf coast.

ow that a few more winter Texans are in the park, Norm and Sheryl hosted the first of many happy hours. 

 

Tonight was the first night of bingo for the season.  I won one game and got $3.50 for it.