Gratitude Day #24: Family Outings

Earlier this week, Lennard heard about a Santa Claus Parade being held in Fort Macleod.  We both decided that it would be something fun to do with the kids so we loaded up this morning and headed out.  We managed to find a pretty good place to sit and settled in to wait for the parade to start.
    
They were okay for about 10 minutes and then they didn’t want to sit or be wrapped up.  They had fun exploring for a while and had to be chased down the street a couple times (fun times).  Finally the parade started!  They loved seeing all the floats and especially all the bands.  Emma was dancing around and put on quite a show for those sitting around us.  Ben got pretty cold by the end of the parade, but he had fun too.  They both thoroughly enjoyed gathering candy and I’m sure that helped keep them a bit warmer!

We thought that the kids would be excited to see Santa Claus, but when we pointed him out to Emma she ran back to where I was sitting and exclaimed, “I don’t like Santa Claus!  He’s scary!”  Oh well… at least she loved all the other floats!