What goes Ho Ho Ho, thump?

Santa Claus laughing his head off, of course! What goes "Holy Crap it's cold out here"? That would be the playgroup freezing our butts off at the annual parade of lights tonight. Despite the cold, the parade was good. Looseyfur set us up in a darn good spot. We were right in front of Aroma Cafe, where the view of the parade was great and we had access to warmth and bathrooms. Nothing better than that. :)

MT decided to dance to keep warm while we waited


I had no idea that there would be candy thown at the parade so I didn't bring our candy bags. However, my resourceful kids used TB's camera bag to hold all their candy. Smarties :)

We met up with the Quigs family


as well as several of our other favorite people! Poor Pretty Girl wasn't happy about the cold at all. Fortunately, her daddy was willing to let her borrow his coat.


The MTD float got to have one of the star balloons that were in the parade


Their bus was pretty cool too


This was the display on the top of the bus. I'm amazed it stayed put with the way the wind was howling.


I liked the teddy bears sledding



Tigger, Piglet, The Cat in the Hat and a dalmation joined in the parade as well.




Finally, the big guy himself!