So, this evening my life proved to not be so boring. Connie, Jill, and I hopped in the car and headed downtown to the Snowdown Bites! light parade. SO FUN!!! We screamed and yelled and danced and begged for candy and necklaces for an hour!
Parade Loot
1. Skittles
2. Temporary tattoo (2)
3. Banana flavored Bubble Gum
4. Sour Apple Laffy Taffy
5. Double Bubble
6. Sour Head Extreme Sour Lemon
7. Lemon flavored Tootsie Roll
8. Super Bubble (2)
9. Anti-smoking Pen
10. Grape Jolly Rancher
11. Slice of American Cheese in the wrapper
12. Banana Laffy Taffy
13. Honey Almond Soap
14. Gudu Pop (2)
15. Blue Super Bola Jaw Breaker
16. Durango Fencing Club voucher
17. Bubble Gum Ball
18. Sweet Tarts
19. Aaron's Tire Bam-Bams
20. Yellow Super Bola Jaw Breaker
21. Skeleton and gravestone pencil top eraser
22. The Snowdown Sneer newspaper
23. Mardi gras beads in red, orange, and gold [not in photo]
24. Strawberry Kiwi Now-N-Later
After the parade which included the Southern Ute Festival Royalty, the La Plata 4H, a Sodexo truck (food service business), a flat bed trailer with two stripper poles (strippers included), multiple trucks used to inflate hot air balloons spewing 10-20ft. columns of fire, a unicycle troop dressed as one-eyed monsters, the high school rock band (16 y/o convicted drug offender neighbor included), a group of mutant squids twirling chains with flaming balls of fire on the ends, a dog dressed as a horse (really?!?), a group of 50-70 y/o ladies dressed as zombies dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller, yet another group of old ladies dancing as zombie brides, and the awesome giant inner-lit jellyfish that actually looked like jellyfish, we went to East By Southwest for calamari, sushi, spicy coconut milk mushroom soup, and Thai tea with pearls. We met Jill and her friend (same friend from The Palace evening out) and had a blast getting warm and eating amazing food. Amazingly enough for such a nice restaurant, we had a delicious dinner with drinks for just $10 each! I truly wish that all of you could have been there with us. More good news, I went to the Monster Mash Book Sale at the library and for $7 I picked up 14 books! Yahoo!
Maggie and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat
Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy
A Whale for The Killing by Farley Mowat
The Snow Walker by Farley Mowat
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Yosemite by John Muir
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow [the one they made a sad movie of]
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Gulag Archepelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ordeal By Ice by Farley Mowat
The American by Henry James
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
So, I am psyched about all of my new reading material, but I really must get to bed. Good night all and love to everyone.
xoxoxo
-Kate
3 comments:
Wow! What a night of fun and fancy! I love the name of the paper "The Sneer". Really missin' you this morning, because I would love a live account of your evening. You know me, my imagination loves to go wild. Fun fun! ~ Happy reading as well.~ Love you.
Amazing parade. Slice of American cheese in the wrapper? Sweet!
I know! Besides Durango, where else would they hand out american cheese at a parade? They were also handing out chocolate milk but I unfortunately didn't get any of that. :)
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