Fenton Founder's Day - Part 1

Whilst taking Beth to her Ballet, Tap, & Jazz dance class, we noticed a sign at Riverchase advertizing the Fenton Founder's Day Parade. We had just enough time to get to Fenton City Park to see the parade after Beth's finished & so thought that we would check it out.

There were quite a few people already there but we were lucky enough to get a parking space at the main car park adjacent to where the parade entered the park. As we hadn't planned to come to this event, we were obviously less prepared than most other people. When we got to the parade route there were bankets, chairs, & coolers where people had obviously set-up early & then chilled out whilst waiting for the parade. Most children also had carrier bags, which we found out was so that they could carry all the candy that would be thrown out from the parade.

There were a large variety of different parade vehicles, including a car club's hot rods (including a cool pro-street Chevy pick-up that the owner shouted out to me had a built 454 big-block under the hood) to tractors & Amish carriages. There were also some marching bands, dance troupes, & of course the obligatory Ronald McDonald (shame he wasn't throwing out Big Macs!). The parade lasted for about 45 minutes, after which we went back into the park to look at the cars, oops, I mean to see what else was going on.