Parade Day!!

Today was the loyalty days parade! Kate, Brian and I were lucky enough to get to show off our "State Park Spirit".
Kate designed a "replica" of the Spencer Creek Bridge. We have been dealing with bridge construction at work for so many years, in a way this was our celebration of the whole project, and its completion. Although I was stuck in construction traffic for about 5 minutes on Friday, the project is nearly complete, and the bridge that they have built is absolutely beautiful.

Kate, standing under the bridge, in the "creek" acting as a fake troll. She even made a beaver dam!

We had coloring books and little stuffed beavers to give out. Judy, one of the hosts from the park, and Brian were in the truck. JR Beaver, Oregon State Park mascot (Judy's husband), rode in the back of the truck. Kate and I got to hand out the stuffed beavers and coloring books. We ran out a little more than half way through the parade. We hopped on the float and rode the rest of the way, waving to the parade watchers as if we were princesses of OSP. It was super fun!

It started pouring down rain sometime toward the end of the parade (it rained lightly throughout) and by the time we were driving back to our starting point, the wind picked up to 40+ hour gusts! We were very lucky to have missed that, our signs would have never survived, let alone the semi and tonka truck atop the bridge.