Agricultural Christmas Parade

I apparently forgot to post this story before I continued on with the trip posts...so, since we are talking Christmas I will sneak it in here. 
The night before we left for California Moses Lake had its annual Agricultural parade. With two little boys who had never been to this, we decided it was time! They also had Santa downtown for pictures and marshmallow roasting on the road. It turned out to be quite the fun time!

Eli didn't care to be on Santa's lap, although you can see Nicholas was quite happy to be there!

 

Eli was happy to give Santa five, but didn't want to be on his lap.

 This is about as close as we got!

They had tractors that pulled hay rides through town.  

 Here we are on the ride!  Nicholas was pretty excited to do this!

Next up came the parade.  The idea is that farmers are supposed to decorate their equipment and then put it in the parade.  Unfortunately there wasn't much real equipment in the parade.  The boys did like the chopper, however.

Ben decided we may have to participate in the future!  Here they are enjoying the show (and their cookies!).

It was a fun night before taking off for our trip.