The city of Gardendale held its annual Christmas parade the evening of Dec. 3, so of course we had to take Taylor to her first parade. We had a lot of fun, but it was a learning experience:
- Taking pictures of a nighttime Christmas parade from point-blank range on a dark part of the street is not recommended.
- Cover your ears well before the fire trucks pass you. Especially when the guy behind the wheel has that sadistic “I like my siren” expression on his face.
- Get there early and find a good parking space, so you don’t end up driving through a recently-bush hogged field, impaling a borrowed car on a recently-sheared tree (Sorry Mom!)
- Bring a large bag for candy. If you think it’s too big, go ahead and grab a second one. There’s really that much candy.
This scene is taken from the little-known Seuss follow-up tale, “The Grinch who Stole All the Candy From Every Wal-Mart in a 50-Mile Radius”
Rednecks in Gardendale? Perish the thought.
Easily my favorite float of all time – the snow-blowing, bubble-flinging float! Who says you can’t have a white Christmas in Alabama?
To our friends in the northeast: OUR snow dried up and went away before the next morning. (Plus, what little public transportation we have still runs.)
Even the Cylons and the Stormtroopers dress up for Christmas.
Who needs a sleigh and reindeer when you have a ladder truck?