July 4th parade
You know it's a long, hot parade when the kids are asking for double shots of water. To water the band, we walk down the line of kids when the parade stops moving. They open their mouth and tilt the head slightly back. Take the squirt bottle and fill them up with a mouthful of water. Any more and it goes all over the place. We parents were noticing that the kids' mouths were dry and sticky inside. Their lips had white raw spots from the instruments. Aside from one girl who dropped out sick before the parade even started, we finished with just as many marchers as we started with. Good thing too, since the golf cart was in the shop we would have had to walk them back to the buses. Madi, me and my beer gut:
