This has been the month of parades for our family, from watching to hosting to being in them, we can't seem to get enough. We decided to enter our first ever boat parade this year. The last couple years we have gone down to Oceanside Harbor to enjoy the parade from the back of my parent's boat. Last year's was a small affair, just a few boats that circled the harbor a couple time. When I saw the flyer just after Thanksgiving advertising this year's parade I (accidentally?) said outloud, "We should enter!" to my family. Well, a couple weeks later my mom lets me know that she found some strings of battery operated lights so get thinking about other boat decorations we might need.
And, thus was born "Santa's Workshop." The kids were elves, Matt was Santa and Jed tried to make sure the kids kept waving and stayed inside the boat.
They did awesome! The boat couldn't have had more decorations on it without sinking. The kids couldn't have been more enthusiastic and adorable and the men couldn't have had more fun.
My favorite part was watching a stream of boats from 30-70' long go past us and then right in the middle was our little 13' dinghy with the most spirited and adorable gang aboard.
Happy holidays indeed!
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