Capac Days 2009

The float en route!

Some of the Just Dance gang!

Yesterday was the Capac Days parade which has a very long history as do many of the festivals and parades in little burgs in Michigan. Especially the thumb and southern Michigan. Anyway, 2007 was an anniversary of some sort. (Me thinks probably 150) So the festival and parade were absolutely wonderful and everyone wanted to keep up the momentum. Unfortunately there were a series of mishaps that were out of the control of the committee, but also there was a changing of the some of the guard and while there were some issues last year, this year it was a complete train wreck. To not add salt to anyone's wounds I'll refrain from giving an entertaining description. Now if you've ever met the parade chairman, you would know she is an "every I dotted, and every T crossed" kind of girl who is very organized, professional and an absolute delight to work with. Well, something went terribly wrong this week. Even living the next town over and really having nothing to do with Capac politics I got the picture loud and clear.
But, even with all the problems and the rain, the parade was successful and we had a really good experience. And for a quickly put together float on a brand new to us wagon the float looked great. Now that we have broken it in and know how much room we have we can make a really cool float next year. For those of you who do floats, you know everything has to be constructed on sight because any major road time will completely destroy even the best floats. Just dance does several parades each year and it is something the students and families always enjoy.