Halloween Parade

It's Halloween time again in Anoka, the Halloween Capitol of the World. We have had a busy week preparing for the big Parade that was today. Last weekend was the night light parade. Jeff, Birch, Cameron and Julie decided to enter the group costume contest this year as they ran the Grey Ghost 5K run at the beginning of the parade. Can you tell what they are?????? Yes! Bumper cars! Cameron came up with the idea, Julie and I went looking for supplies (thank you Ax-man surplus) and we spent the week constructing the little bumper cars. Needless to say....mom came to the rescue again....I'd rather construct than run the race!!!

They looked pretty cute bumping into each other. Birch did the license plates.

Julie was 2FAST4U, Cameron was W84ME, Birch was XLR8, and Jeff was

CUL8R.

Here we are walking down Park Street to Anoka. The cars bumping along...

Luckily they ran right past us. Sometimes it's hard to find the runners in the crowd, but we saw our bumper cars! A lot of people were shouting for them and taking pictures. It was fun for us that were watching! They were pretty disappointed that they didn't win a prize. Jeff really wanted a medal since Cameron got one last year. But there were some pretty amazing costumes.

This was my favorite. A Carousel of horses. It took 3rd place under a school of fish and Obama running with Sarah...(we thought bumper cars were much more original) It was fun anyway. We'll see what next year brings!