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2010 Spokane Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torchlight Parade

Parade Start
Is it just me or do we have the longest parade name in the world? Anyhow, this Saturday we went to this yearly evening parade in downtown Spokane, it was Damian and Ivy’s first parade. Our friends Peter and Andrea were kind enough to save us a spot.

Happiness, I haz it! Peter
Peter & Ivy

I love the picture of her about to bite Peter’s finger. Om nom nom!

Biplanes Police
The Flags Parade

This parade has all the usual stuff, it celebrates the military (our local air force base in particular) so there were the fly overs, soldiers, troop carriers, veterans of past wars, as well as the police and firefighters, floats (creepiest float ever) and high school marching bands, cheerleaders and dance squads. Several marchers saw Damian’s happy frantic waving and tried to get high fives…

Deny and deny! Sorry soldier and Spokane tribe member, he looks like a 4 year old but he is just a two year old with stranger anxiety. We love you anyways though!
Clydesdale
Damian’s favorite, after the firetrucks at least.
Delorean
Mommy’s favorite… after the storm troopers. Do you know that they are making Delorean’s again? There were 12 in the parade! Mmmmmmm stainless steel delicious futuristicness. The only thing that would have made them better would have been Darth Vader behind the wheel (or me, I want!)
10PM
Being a torchlight parade, it didn’t wrap up until after 10pm. Both Ivy and Damian fell asleep during the parade. I feel sorry for Michael’s arms, Damian did not want to ride back in the wagon and it was a long walk back to the van. Ivy was more then happy to ride in the wagon though, yay for wagons!

As I said this was Damian and Ivy’s first parade. Damian adored it (Ivy at 5 1/2 months is still ambivalent about most things beyond the chewable.) We’ll have to go again next year, who knows, maybe some high fives will happen! (You can find more photos of the parade here!)

5/365: Manito Park

2010/01/05
Manito Park, Spokane, WA

Date

Flour Mill
Michael and I went on a date yesterday. He took me to Clinkerdaggers, which is in the Flour Mill in downtown Spokane. The Flour Mill was built in 1890 and is one of our historic buildings, it was renovated for the 1974 World’s Fair, to provide downtown space for eateries and retailers. Clinkerdaggers is a beautiful restaurant that overlooks the Spokane River. Michael and I both had the baby iceberg salad and filet mignon and we shared a cobbler for dessert. Yum! We walked around Riverfront Park after and enjoyed the Autumn foliage (which is being knocked down by the heavy rains and high winds today) and talked and talked and talked…

Damian seemed to have fun while we were out too, our friend Andrea babysat him (thank you!) and he was sad when she left. Granted, he refused to nap while she was here but once she was gone for a few minutes he lapsed into such a deep sleep he was drooling, only to wake up an hour later and be up till 22:30 (way past my bedtime lol.) It was worth it though. While children are always a joy, it is really nice to get away sometimes and have one on one time with your spouse as well as a real adult conversation.