Stampede Parade and Midway

PARADE DAY!  We were up n' at em super early to take the express bus downtown.

We arrived to our pre-bought bleacher seats around 8am.  We had a small breakfast and waited for it to begin.  That was a long wait!

Prince William and Bride Kate ZOOMED past us doing about 40km an hour....  Whatever.  That was lame sauce!  In my opinion, they should have been in a horse drawn carriage.  But no - motorcycle brigade and a black sedan with the tinted black windows rolled down.


The parade was ok.  We enjoyed all the marching bands and pipers.  The floats were so-so.  I found the whole thing to be lack luster and drawn out.  Quinn enjoyed himself for the most part, but was getting pretty board after the first 2 hours (was a 3 hour parade).

I don't plan to ever go to the parade again, I don't see the need.  A good experience for our family but the last experience!


STAMPEDE GROUNDS

Afterwards, us and 100,000 other people headed off the stampede grounds.

Lets see, what did we gorge ourselves on?  Corn dogs, deep fried oreos, cheesecake on a stick, cotton candy, root beer, shredded steak sandwich, lemonade!  MMMmmmmm, I do love midway food!

We went through the Dream home and fell in love.  We bought tickets but didn't win  :(  We kept talking like we won it, and when we didn't I think Quinn was a little disappointed as he didn't quite grasp the 'day dreaming' concept of the prise!


Quinn and I got ride-all-day wrist bands from Safeway.  We let Quinn have at er in kiddy land and most definitely got our moneys worth and more on the wrist bands!  Afterwards we took him to the midway.  Man games are expensive now!  I thought they were a rip off years ago at $1-2, now they are $4-5!
I took Quinn on the Giant slide a few times, the Crazy Mouse roller coaster, and the Rainbow Rider.  He is big enough to go on other 'big' rides, but we decided to hold off on those till he is older.

We tried (Quinn was cranky) to buzz through the convention center to see what the latest Must haves are.  We also caught a Super Dog show and we all really enjoyed that.  It started getting cold so we headed home.

Stampede 2011.  Lots of fun and LOTS of money spent!