The FAMOUS E'ville parade

"There is going to be 20,000 people there", "Get there a few hours early" , " steak out your territory", "plan on being there at least 3 hours", and " the traffic alone can take you an hour to get threw"

These are the things I kept hearing about this famous Edwardsville halloween parade. There were 115 floats. The parade was alot of fun, mainly because we had the kids there. Other than that it was kinda sad. Some of the 'floats' we a bit pathetic. We had a blast though. Ryan just loved it. He actually went out there and picked up candy and put it in his bucket. It was probably one of the best nights I have had in a long time.

I did go drive by around 4 to steak out a seating area. The parade started at 6:30. Well as you would know it there were already chairs lined up and down the street. So I pulled over and put up our chairs in front of an insurance company with their permission. I left them there, and we all met back up there around 5:45. We set our territory, and we were still taken over by kids.

Most of the candy was your normal parade candy. But every now and then we would get a good looking one and we ( us adults) would immediately act like a child, like, get that one get that one. The parade was only a bit over an hour and a half and it only took 20 minutes to get out.

Last but definitely not least...these are just a couple of funny pictures of Tami, that night she was known as 'crazy Tami'! Mainly due to the fact she kept yelling out peoples name she did not know, and she kept flinging around these lighted toys she bought. And not to mention Tami just being Tami.