Holidays

Recently we celebrated the founding of our host country. We got to attend the parade not from our house. It was a bit different than our independence day parade back home. It started with an hour of presentations, special music, and cultural dancing by some local school children. This was all on one street intersection. After it finished, there was over an hour of the local high schools marching (not in bands, just the students marching), a horde of bicyclists, a mass of motorcycles, military vehicles, vintage cars, and finally the public works trucks and ambulances with sirens blaring. The noisy ending part was just like the town parade back home.

 It was fairly warm, so I'm not sure how these kids did it with all those layers!

 Love these "bad guys"...interestingly, many wore jackets that said "freedom riders" in English but had a picture of the local flag.

 Lu's reaction to all those sirens.

Moo loving that there was a tow truck as the last "float"!! He even posed for a picture.