Soybean Festival Update 2

Tuesday was parade day! We started with a picnic at the Alpha Gamma Rho frat house, where they had fried chicken, hot dogs, hamburgers:
We ate with some of the new pledges, the chancellor, and my boss, the dean of humanities and fine arts. The good thing about eating with the chancellor is that he is more than happy to carry the conversation (those of you who know my tendencies well, feel free to laugh).

And then we went down toward the church to watch the Soybean Festival Parade:

Not a great picture, but I tried to get the Little Boy and the parade in the same shot from our crummy little camera. Anyway, I'm here to report that police and fire truck sirens, when blown within ten feet of the Little Boy, terrify said Little Boy. He did like the bands, the tractors, and the horses.

Strangest features of the parade:

• The Aaron's Rents truck hawking a Dell computer! For $99.99 a month! Own for 12 payments!
• The group of four or five muddy ATVs, all driven by high school age kids. There was even a three-wheeler amongst them, and I thought those were all illegal now. Oh well.