DC Part II: Evelyn's First Parade

Our morning in DC was taken up mostly with the Cherry Blossom parade. I haven't been to a parade in a while and this one was actually really good! There were a lot of bands, gorgeous floats, and very few fancy cars with local politicians in them waving. Here are Evie and Nathan getting ready for the parade! So exciting!

We were trying to keep our baby girl warm while we waited for the start. Doesn't she look like she is in a pink baby snuggly?? :) Her hands were getting cold and she didn't want to keep them covered. We distracted her by giving her her pacifier. :)

The flags.

Lots of pink! Evie and I loved it. ;)

Evie was SO into everything. She loved the bands the most, but also found the floats and other things quite fascinating. She was so intense the whole time!
All the drill teams were in it, which was quite cool.

Yogi bear! The kids beside us went CRAZY of Yogi.

Japanese lanterns and dancers...

An example of the gorgeous floats

This was one of our favorite parts. The DC motorcycle police did all sorts of maneuvers and patterns on their motorcycles. It was fun! Boys and their toys... :)

We actually didn't stay for the whole parade though... about an hour is we saw a huge fire coming and thought it was some cool pyrotechnics. Well, apparently one of the SUVs pulling a float caught on fire!! (see here: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/04/11/video-dodge-durango-catches-fire-during-d-c-cherry-blossom-par/#continued) Once we started to notice a funny burning smell, more smoke and saw the fire truck come up, we realized it wasn't a planned part of the parade! Scary! Anyway, there was quite a long break while they put out and cleaned up the fire, and we left to get hot dogs from a street vendor and meet up with our friends.


It is so fun experiencing all these "firsts" with Evelyn. She is becoming such an alert, curious little girl!