February 15, 2009
We love going "home" for the weekend. This weekend was special because our good friends got married and we get to watch the Scott Mardi Gras parade. Our friends recently bought a beautiful old home on a huge lot with giant live oaks, right on the parade route. They have a long, wide front porch lined with several wooden rocking chairs, a beautiful back yard with a wooden deck that doubles as a dance floor...complete with stage area for a band. It's the perfect place to enjoy a Mardi Gras parade. As the day wore on, Ione fell asleep on my lap in one of the rockers while Isabella and Kevin waved and yelled to the float riders for throws. I'm pretty sure that after seeing the Rio parade Saturday night with Nonni and Poppi and the Scott parade Sunday afternoon, Isabella will be well-prepared for Mardi Gras day! (I'll post photos on caglekingdom of all the loot those girls came home with.) One of the highlights for Isabella was making a friend. She always looks forward to making a new friend, and always manages to find someone her age to hang out with. Here, she met "Iron Man." He assured her that was his real name and continued to call him that throughout the afternoon. They were quite a pair and wore each other out before the day was over. Great news for us since she fell asleep quickly for the long ride home! I made a collage for today's photo so I could show just how colorful and creative the "floats" in the Scott parade can be.
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