Labor Day Parade

Don't you just love a parade? 

Labor Day brought with it the annual Labor Day Parade in downtown Trinidad.  Les and I grabbed the dogs and walked 2 blocks toward downtown so that we could watch our first Trinidad parade.

The atmosphere was one of excitement as the crowds gathered.  Of course, it could have just been me as I've been imagining watching this parade for 5 long years.  It started right on time with a fanfare of emergency vehicles all waling away with their sirens.  Police cars, fire trucks, rescue vehicles and search ATVs -- just to mention a few.

There were many displays of horses as this is a ranching area.  There was a big, black cow pulling a cart and even an alpaca came to show off.  The floats consisted of a flat-bed trailer, bales of straw and cardboard exhibits.  There was even a big cement mixer with American flags on the front fenders and a smiling driver throwing candy out the windows at the crowd. 

We saw some local school marching bands, a dance troupe from the local studio, and many, many happy, smiling faces.  Small town parades -- I'll take this over the Rose Parade any day!