Aberdeen Daze

We spent last weekend in Aberdeen visiting Chris's parents (and Brenda). It seemed like a good idea to get one more trip in before we have three kids to pack up... Happily, our trip coincided with the annual Aberdeen Days Celebration. Hooray for extra fun things to do!

The day started out with a free pancake breakfast in the park.



I would just like to point out that you can't tell I'm pregnant in this picture. Right now, that makes me happy.

We spent a long time hanging out and playing at the park. This is the only picture I have, in which Jane has borrowed a bike helmet from Chris's friend's daughter. She just had to wear it because it had princesses on it.


That afternoon was the parade. It started off with a genuine World War II fighter jet flying pretty low over the crowd. It was cool.


Grandpa Craig was in the parade as part of the City Council. Bonus! He threw lots of candy right to the girls.


Really, though, they came out with quite the candy haul. We ended up in a spot where not many other people were, so most every float threw candy right to them.


That worked out just great, with the exception of the frozen otter pops. Um, not a good thing to put in the diaper bag and forget about. Just for my personal future reference.

It thought this was fun--it was the Aberdeen High School class of 1961. Part of their 50th reunion including being in the parade. It made me smile. It also goes to show how small Aberdeen really is.


This float was creative--each building represents an actual business in town. They were also spraying everyone with water guns instead of throwing candy.


The two on the left end wearing ball caps are Chris's friend Harold and his son Parker. After the parade, we went to hang out at their house.


That's Alisha hugging Megan. It was her helmet that Jane was wearing at the park.

Chris played, too.


The only real downside to our trip was the drive home. Oh, my goodness. Two toddlers and a very pregnant woman in a car for almost four hours is...rather unpleasant. Let's put it that way. We have made that drive many, many times all in one shot, no problem. This time, though, we had to stop twice and even then it was a bit of a fight to not stop more. Lame. Other than that, though, it was a good weekend! I'm glad we went.