Fourth of July Parade

We got up early this morning and drove into the Pagosa
Bakery for breakfast.  We were early enough to get a parking space on the street with enough room to put our chairs in back of our car.  We were parked across the street from this really neat store.  They had beautiful hand woven baskets and pottery.

Patricia and her dog, Camie, joined us as we waited for the parade.  We had good seats for a great parade.  There was a guy flying around in an ultra light as we waited.

To start off the parade there was a flyover by nine planes varying from single wing to bi-wings.

Then came the color guard with active duty and veterans of a lot of different wars.

  

The parade marshal was riding in a beautiful buckboard being pulled by two beautiful horses.

There were elaborate floats all the way down to people walking and lots of horses.  I took pictures of every one of them and then realized that there was no way I could upload them all on my blog so I will pick some of my favorites.

This was the high school band who smartly chose to ride on a float rather than walk.

Pretty horse and pretty carriage.

This was a creative way to have both the flag and the mountains depicted.

  This is a young Apache Indian boy from the reservation south of here riding bareback.

There were several old cars and truck in the parade.

I had never seen a Roller Blade group in a parade before.  They were very good.

This being four-wheel territory, there are lots of them in the parade.

I don’t know what kind of horses these are but they are beautiful.

The Freedom Rides were represented as well.

The dome in the center of this float represents the hot springs that flow into the river.  It really looks like this.

There were even angels in the parade from Visiting Angels, a in-home care business.

There was even a broken-down truck with the participants pushing it.

This float represented the air rescue service that operates here.

Another old car.

 

These people were from the “Painted Lady.”  I don’t know how the lady in blue made it in those high heels.

 

This float was by the Mt. View Housewives advertizing their upcoming auction.

Not many parades have rafts with rafters.

There are lots of places here to take advantage of the hot springs in pools and hot tubs.  These guys looked like they were having fun.

I liked the eagle.

And another old car decorated for the occasion. 

This float belonged to the local hospital.  Note the “doctor” with the saw cutting off the man’s leg.

  This is the company that came out and washed the coach the second day we were here.

   

The parade took about an hour to go by and with a two hour wait for it to start we were ready to go back to the motorhome to get ready for the picnic this afternoon.