July 4th parade in downtown Creswell, Oregon
Creswell, Oregon is about 12 miles south of Eugene where we are staying. Sean and his family lived here for a while after moving from Tucson.
The entire town showed up with folks from the surrounding area, 3000-4000 in all. The parade lasted about 1½ hours with fire trucks, dump trucks, other trucks and plenty of tractors. This was a wonderful event with tons of candy being thrown from the floats as well as water from the fire trucks. There was fighting, grabbing, knee bruising, shoving, stomping and kicking. And that was just between the kids and me. The rest of the adults pretty well acted sane.
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