Christmas Parade Part I

This weekend was a flurry of flurriness* starting with the Mathews Christmas parade on Saturday.

John Deere made an appearance or two in the parade.

Our Grand Marshal

Among other things, Nelda handles the county's Meals on Wheels program.
Her driver Mr. Gibbs was my high school geography teacher.
They are both wonderful people who also happen to be avid runners.

Heavy duty farm equipment followed by the Gloucester Chic-Fil-A cows.

Mathews High School Class of 1982 is always well represented in this parade.
This is Glenda Burroughs and one of her two beautiful daughters.

Daughter Two waves.

This was one of my favorite entrants.  A boat with pirates.
And parrots. And turtles. And....

CRAB HATS!!!
This group gets two claws up from Chesapeake Bay Woman.

In this picture is Craig Lewis (brown jacket and hat, click here and here for 

past posts featuring his mad boating skillz); 

Scooter Ransone in the blue jacket; and in the far background wearing the red jacket talking to bystanders rather than 

marching in the parade is MHS Class of 1982 representative #2, Sterling Ransone.

(He's also known as Dr. Ransone.)

Not until this float went by did I notice the best part.

This child's body language captured what a few of us on the sidelines
were feeling due to the drizzle and the cold.

This was my favorite.

Mathews High School Class of 1982 Entrant #3:  Alda Hudgins Barnett.

Looking befuddled.  Daughter Betsy looks on.

Yes, here in Mathews we still have (in the background) signs boasting "high test" gasoline.

Miss Betsy Barnett

At this point during the parade it started to sprinkle, hence the blurred spots in the picture above.  Nevertheless I kept taking pictures and will share them, along with pictures from Saturday night's Holly Ball, later this week.

*************************

*Flurriness is a word I just invented which, loosely translated, means too much flurry for one's own good much less one weekend.