Lost Dutchman Day's Parade

Sorry it has been so long since I last posted. We have had steady company and our days have been so busy!! The weather has been absolutely incredible this winter as you'll see by the pictures. So beautiful sunny and warm.
Norm and Diana (Doug's brother and wife) arrived the day before the Lost Dutchman Day's parade so we treated them to the parade the next morning. It was a lovely sunny day to be sitting out watching the parade. It was Saturday February 25th.

This parade is a real cowboy country parade and lots of fun to watch. Here is an old police car

Always lots of beautiful old cars

There are plenty of pretty young women who are the rodeo queens/princesses for their small towns. Their horses are beautifully decorated as are the girls!

Beautiful Clydesdale horses

These miniature horses more the size I am comfortable with!

Now these are ladies!

You can't have a parade without the young ladies of dance! They were so cute

More rodeo queens and princesses

Got to have the vintage was vehicles

Loved this old carriage - it has been restored to original condition

Loved this little girl, she looked about 6 yrs old and she was handling her horse so well and it was mucho bigger than her!!

I am sure you are quickly getting the idea.....everyone with a horse is in this parade!

Love those Shriners! - you can't have a parade without them

You can't have a parade without the tractors either!

There are times I would love to hire these guys!

That evening it was warm enough to eat outside on the patio but it is still winter, it gets dark early so we ate a candle lit dinner with Norm & Diana