Lights on Rice (Christmas parade #2)

Noah and I attended our second Christmas parade of the season on December 7th in Lihue (on Rice Street, thus the name). This was definitely a much more traditional Christmas parade than the one at the mall, and was very cool for 2 reasons. First, the parade took place after the sun went down so every float used Christmas lights as part of their decorations. Second, and the most exciting part of this parade, was that Daddy was in it!!!

PMRF (our base- Pacific Missile Range Facility) had a float and Ely was one of the "lucky" ones who got to walk with the float. I think the guys actually had a much better time than they expected, and I know Ely loved handing out candy to the kids :D

Noah and I waiting for the parade to start.  I had to bribe him with an M&M to get him to smile for this picture! I think this is his, "There Mom, I smiled so give me my M&M!" face :-D

Here are some pictures of a few random floats that had neat light displays

Of course, there were some local bruddahs' trucks in this parade, too!

One of the high school marching bands had their own flood lights. They were so bright that the street lights all turned off as they passed!

You can't tell from this picture, but Noah was "marching" along with the band

I think every other float in this parade had a Santa, but I don't remember seeing any Aloha Santas this time.  However, the police department had Santa on a Segway carrying a gun! 

Noah loved all the candy they were handing out! Every time I looked over at him he had managed to sneak another piece!

PMRF float:

That's Ely on the right :)

The Skipper with Mr. & Mrs. Clause

Pretty sure we were the only float with a "missile" ;-)

There's Daddy!!!

There were definitely some "awes" from the crowd during these photos :)