South Ogden Days

Me:  You guys South Ogden Days is this weekend!

Siblings: Yay.  (In a super non-excited tone.)

Luckily, I have a husband who enjoys free activities as much as I do.  We once again made the trek up our neighborhood hills.  Notice the "s" after "hill."  The husband wanted to try out our newish stroller.  I'd be looking at the double strollers for a while and I wanted one that Aiko could stand/sit.  Once I showed the husband what I wanted he went to researching and found us a deal on Cyber Monday.  The best part...it's ORANGE. 

Who doesn't love a carnival?  The 5 year old kid carni kid working the booths?  The people watching?  The domestic violence?  (Not really, but I was quite worried about this girl, but the Sheriffs were nearby.)

There is always a free kids booth that let's you play with different musical instruments.  Aiko's favorite would be the maracas.   I'll admit, the carnival isn't quite as magical during the day.  But it was nice to walk around easily and not have to dodge the high school kids that are inevitably going to come.

On our way home we found this quail watching us.  Our neighborhood has tons.  Plus it's baby time and the families are waddling around.  When we first moved in our older neighbor asked if my dog was going to eat the quail.  It was awkward. 

   

After getting a quick nap in and watching the husband finish staining the deck, we decided to once again embark up the hills.  They set off fireworks a few miles from our house and we were meeting our neighbors.   Plus, look how pretty everything is at night!

Like I said, who doesn't love South Ogden Days?

South Ogden Days Parade

I love this parade.  Mainly, because it's the same one I used to go to with my grandma and cousins every year we could.  Plus, we always got tons of salt water taffy.  TONS.  They still throw out tons of candy.  Though they have changed the location of the parade, it still runs through the neighborhoods.  Which, blows the husband's mind.  The parades he always went to were on Main Street and usually included sheep.  Like this one. He was still a little wary that random strangers just plop themselves down on someone's front yard.

  

We gathered up some of our neighbors to join us on some random person's lawn. 

 

I didn't actually get too many photos of the actual parade because I was too busy taking them of this little lady.  She was so much more into it this year.  She would cheer, run out and get candy and just stare. 

  

  

  

The humane society threw out stuffed animals, which hello, AWESOME!  Even if they did say 2013 from last years Christmas, who cares?  We actually got two dogs and a dog toy.  I originally gave the first dog away to the nice little girl next to me because I really didn't want to take one home.  But then a nice guy across the street came and gave/shoved his to the husband.  "For your baby." He said.  Orion was just hanging out in his carrier with Derek.  It was sweet and Aiko really did love the dog. 

You can't quite see, but there are frooties all around Aiko.   She would pick up as many as she could and hold on to dear life.  I had to pry them from her fingers to put in the bag.  

She didn't even know it was food until I let her have one.  Which, it's a good thing I didn't let her have one until the end.  I don't normally let her have candy, but I thought, shoot, it's a dang parade! 

I'm so glad that I can share this parade with my family now!

Previous South Ogden Days Blogs here and here

south ogden parade

i love parades.  i love parades even more when they throw candy.  lots of it.  south ogden parades are probably one of the few that i know of that still throw candy, GOOD CANDY. while i don't even really eat it, it's just nostalgic.

auntie mitsie and grams used to take all the grandkids to the parades.  we all had a grocery bag that came empty and was completely full by the time we left.

so naturally, i felt that aiko needed to experience this. 

it's kind of sad how no one has floats anymore.  but these boy scout definitely worked hard! their's was by far THE best.

i'm slightly jealous that we couldn't ride it. 

while, i was slightly creeped out, this haunted house made the parade much more interesting. i feel like all the "floats" are just fancy jacked up cars with nothing cool.  this hearse, is awesome.

the BHS mini cheer team.

i'm not even sure why we have a coast guard, but always good to find something new. 

this was a new thing for me...but why not?  don't we all LOVE the garbage man?!

this, well, I don't really have any words for it.  but i find it interesting that they have this "bodyguard" with her.

for some reason, if you have an adorable baby out, people will throw lots of candy, toilet paper, stuffed animals, freesbies and otter pops to you.  because, my baby is going to eat/use all of that.

here, my friends are the reasons i come to parades.  black licorice and orange cream flavored taffy and, oh the tootsie rolls.