You Mean It's NOT Raining??

We've gotten so used to rainy football games and rained out parades this fall that we were shocked to discover the sun shining on the day of the Bethlehem parade. We left church after Sunday School in order to get Kairi to the high school by noon so she could get into her uniform and get ready to practice and then get on the bus. The rest of us found our way to center city Bethlehem to find parking and stake out a spot on Main Street near the juding tent.

Nick also had a chance to change into his costume.

Cyndy had Faith and Juli for the day, and they spent the early part of the afternoon at Seiple Farm picking out pumpkins and petting the farm animals. They got into Bethlehem just as the parade was starting.

Some of the groups in the parade throw out candy (although not much as they do in Hellertown -- which was canceled this year because of rain). Faith was the only brave one in the group to run out and get candy, but in the end she ended up getting a lot of help from an older girl sitting next to us. While Juli didn't do any of the candy-grabbing, she got to do some of the candy eating, including some of the fall flavor Jelly Belly jelly beans we had bought earlier while waiting for the parade to start.

Finally, the reason we were there came marching down the street.Saucon put on quite a show. The crowd hadn't really gotten excited about anything that had passed by. There was an occasional smatter of polite clapping, and squeals from the kids when candy flew, but Saucon's band had people cheering and clapping when they broke into their rendition of "Thriller" complete with the zombie dance.

We later asked Kai if they had just done the dance that one time for the judges, and she told us they had done it every few blocks all along the parade route. Ouch!