A fun parade and lots of candy

This Saturday, I took the kids to a parade in Streamwood, Il with their Aunt Mary. I wasn't expecting it to be so fun! It was all geared towards kids. The parade was full of different kid dance groups from the area, cheerleaders, a bagpipe marching band, clowns, fire engines, politicians, old cars. There were some mini go karts dressed up as magic carpets or old corvettes, all driven by old men, most who looked like they were having fun. I was amazed at how short the skirts were on all the dance troop/cheerleaders. The fun part was that the different parade groups would throw out candy to the audience. Mary knew that they would do that, so she brought along two paper bags to collect the candy. A family next to us had a big plastic bucket for their candy. At first, when candy was thrown, Zach just looked at it, kinda of confused and a little frightened, especially since his Aunt Mary was telling him to run into the street to get the candy. He knew he wasn't supposed to go into the street. So the little guy would just sit there on the curb holding his empty paper bag. Mary would run out there to get the candy. A lot of the adults in the parade would throw the candy pretty much at your feet. Some were even walking along the edge of the road and hand you the candy or drop it into your bag. One group of people from Fiesta Market were throwing out handfuls or bucketfuls of candy. Asia started throwing the candy back at the people in the parade. She thought it was some kind of game. Burger King gave out coupons, candy, and those paper golden crowns. Zach was king for a day.