This year, Caribou is celebrating its 150th anniversary. There have been great festivities going on the whole year. Sept 5th was the BIG parade, town bbq and fireworks show. I thought I would post a few pics of how they do parades up here.
One of the antique firetrucks here in caribou, to start off the parade. They don't do any sirens at the beginning of the parade because the horses follow so closely behind.
Kris, Caitlyn and Nick, smiling for me. Notice the blanket wrapped around Caitlyn and the hoodie on Nick? When the sun was out, it was really warm, and when it went behind a cloud it was REALLY cold! I've never been in a parade where we had blankets wrapped around us and got a sunburn at the same time, but we did that here. Crazy
This ALMOST reminded me of a utah parade, with covered wagons...for a moment, I thought I had been transported back. But Alas, it is from the historical society here in town.
This is how they pull floats in Northern Maine...by tractor. Gotta get your farm on! :)
All in all it was a great parade that lasted about 2.5 hours. IT WAS long.....but good. After we went to the High School for a town BBQ and fireworks that night. We were bundled under blankets for the fireworks as it dipped into the 40's. brrrrr. Great day, Great town!
One of the antique firetrucks here in caribou, to start off the parade. They don't do any sirens at the beginning of the parade because the horses follow so closely behind.
Kris, Caitlyn and Nick, smiling for me. Notice the blanket wrapped around Caitlyn and the hoodie on Nick? When the sun was out, it was really warm, and when it went behind a cloud it was REALLY cold! I've never been in a parade where we had blankets wrapped around us and got a sunburn at the same time, but we did that here. Crazy
This ALMOST reminded me of a utah parade, with covered wagons...for a moment, I thought I had been transported back. But Alas, it is from the historical society here in town.
This is how they pull floats in Northern Maine...by tractor. Gotta get your farm on! :)
All in all it was a great parade that lasted about 2.5 hours. IT WAS long.....but good. After we went to the High School for a town BBQ and fireworks that night. We were bundled under blankets for the fireworks as it dipped into the 40's. brrrrr. Great day, Great town!
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE cold weather! hmmm so why am I in SC and not in Northern Maine??? Looks like a wonderful time!
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