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| Our Street Team ready for the parade! |
This is my first Trail Silver
City Days. I feel like Summer 2014 has
now started and is out in full force. Right now the weather is absolutely
beautiful downtown for the last day of activities.
As a resident of Trail I have
seen the all the hustle and bustle getting ready around down for days. I walk
around town and climb the staircases in the evenings to get some sunlight and exercise,
one day all of the carnival gear showed up and everything quickly started
transforming.
The highlight of Silver City
Days weekend (for me) was driving in the Firefighter’s Parade was a lot of fun.
Actually Jenny drove. I rode shotgun and jammed with her the entire time. I
have been a part of many parades; I was Princess Middleton 2009 and had to be
in parades pretty much every weekend that summer. I have never been in a parade
as long as the Silver City Days Parade.
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| A car view of the streets full of people at the parade. |
Not only was the parade
filled with an impressive group of floats (including the City of Trail’s
beautiful new float) the streets of Downtown Trail were PACKED with people. Luckily
the rain started as soon as the parade ended.
The parade was like a second
Halloween for the kid’s watching, we were entry #54 and by the time we reached
the kids most of them had semi-full bags of candy. It is a good thing those
sugared-up youth did not revolt, there was so many of them they would have
taken over Trail!
After the parade the midway
and food mall was the place to be until the evening when ABRA Cadabra played
the arena. I had another work function (I’ll tell you about it later) but driving
back into town the fireworks filled the sky beautifully!
On Sunday Country Divas took
the stage at Gyro Park for Family Day and a Mother’s Day celebration.
Sunday we spent the day going
on rides and playing games at the West Coast Amusement Carnival and treated
ourselves to the food mall. My roommate
from university came and visited for part of the weekend so she experienced the perfect first weekend in Trail.
I had a great time at my
first Trail Silver City Days, I got to meet new people and celebrate Trail for my
first Silver City Days! Thanks to everyone who helps make this incredible event
happen, I can't wait until next year!
