Hometown USA

The Alamogordo Annual Christmas Parade was last night and it was so cold. Our parades include such parade favorites as people walking dogs wearing Santa hats(the dogs) fire trucks with sirens blaring, garbage trucks with all over blinking lights and large groups of bikes and 4 wheelers. Ahh,I love it. Cady marched with her ROTC group and was picked to be one of the kids holding the banner,a big honor. I stood freezing waiting for her to pass by for my pictures. When the time came the light was bad and my flash not big enough to get any pic at all. I had to run a few blocks and get ahead of her to get a not that great shot. I am not the skinny girl I was and that run could have been my final hour. I know I looked dumb running my fat butt through the parade waving my camera but ya gotta do what ya gotta do for those pictures you cannot live without. As I said the picture is not very good but the best I could do while trying to catch my breath and hold the camera still. If they could have just stopped and let me take a few it would have been nice.