little beach community. for years we lived within walking distance
to the beach and the pb parade. we'd walk 4 blocks to garnet avenue
and find a curb to sit on along the parade route.
now that we are a few more blocks away, we drive to an adjacent street,
and park close by. this is what we did this past saturday morning after
we grabbed take out from taco surf. we were lucky to run into a family
we met recently with 2 similar aged boys, so we sat with them the entire time.
the pb parade isn't anything fancy AT ALL. there might be a total of 2 floats in the
entire thing. it's mostly made up of kids from local schools, churches, and community
clubs and organizations from the neighborhood. it's perfect.
this year, scout was asked to participate with the pacific youth soccer league.
he would have to suit up in one of his past soccer uniforms and walk.
i was excited for him, but when i told him, he said he'd much rather watch
the parade. he confessed he wanted to get candy that is handed or thrown to him.
{like the 15 lbs. he has in his halloween bag isn't enough i thought}.
i didn't push it as there will be hopefully be lots of opportunities for him to be in
the parade in years to come. so we sat and watched runners pass before the parade
started {there was a 'fun run'}, and then came the real parade. we saw SO many kids
and families we've known from all aspects of our lives -
from preschool days, play dates, explorer, soccer and birthdays.
this is truly one of the joys of living in a community!
one sweet surprise was seeing the eichorn twins, kai and katherine!
they were riding in the back of their dad's electric smart car waving.
their dad stopped, we all chatted and learned that there's an electric car
club in pacific beach {of course there is}. we are a beach community.
some snapshots of neighborhood kids, friends and santa on a firetruck:
{left to right}: katherine and kai, the asher siblings,
santa on a firetruck, cara and robert {our neighbors}
it was such a fun day. we will definitely be back next year!
~ we crammed 2 holiday parties in this weekend - my company's party was
friday night and held here and saturday's c's company's party was held here.
i'm not bias at all, but my company's party was WAY better! *wink*
