On our way to Idaho, we drove through Rawlins, Wyoming. It's a small town in the middle of nowhere on I-80. Anyway, I remembered that I found a little Thai restaurant there last summer. Since most of road tripping involves fast food/chain restaurant/gas station food, we wanted to stop for lunch somehwere that didn't serve french fries and chicken nuggets.
So we ate lunch at
Anong's Thai Cuisine in downtown Rawlins.
As we were leaving, I noticed lots of people walking by with empty bags. Wondering what was going on, we went out and discovered that a parade was coming down the road. Now, my kids have probably only been to 2 parades in their whole life. So we quickly moved our cars off the road and into an alley (we didn't want to be stuck behind a parade) and the kids watched to see what was coming.
Lucky for the kids, they were throwing out candy! So everyone got a few treats.
We saw lots of small town parade sights: fire trucks, ambulances, horses, kids on roller blades and skate boards, classic cars, all the cars that were signed up for the crash derby next week.
We also saw this:
But my favorite was this float: (look close)
Did you know there were festivals celebrating this? Did you notice that the float sign painter can't spell?
