A few days ago my friend Tanya messaged me and asked if I'd like to meet her downtown at the Capital Ex parade - well I didn't even know it was on this week!!! So I checked with Lloyd that I could get a ride with him and figured it all out, and yesterday we headed into downtown Edmonton to watch the Capital Ex parade!!
sadly Tanya had a Neuro appointment and ended up having to go for IV's, so we couldn't meet up at all - but we both managed to see the parade - Tanya saw parts of it - at a totally different place to me!!!
That aside, I got a really great place to watch the parade - close to the start and ride by the curb - and we had our towels to sit on. Lots of snacks and juice boxes. We were entertained with clowns and mascots coming by to say hello - things being given out - like frisbees and noise makers, flags and tattoos. Police cars and motor bikes coming by and waving. Then finally the helicopters and jets did a fly over twice to mark the start of the parade!!!! Very LOUD and exciting - the kids LOVED that!!! :)
The parade was really good (we've never been before so have nothing to compare it to except the crappy carnivals back home in England which take place on cold damp nights in October or November or something in the dark!!!!) so this was lovely!!!! It was a bit TOO long though as it lasted well OVER two hours and so the kids got a bit bored in the end so we stopped watching after the Chans model agency display bit.....we then headed to get something for lunch before the parade ended and the crowds hit everywhere. We then went over to the wading pools for a while and played there in the heat and cooled off. Lloyd came and joined us for a while on his early lunch break.....
