american fork steel days

what is steel days?
not sure
what kinds of treats do you have a steel days?
not sure
what do you do at steel days?
not sure

what did we do to celebrate this year's steel days?
we woke up bright and early to watch the parade. being complete amateurs with the parade (we didn't even know the route) we threw kate in the stroller and headed down to main street. we walked a few blocks east on main where all the floats were lined up and took our seats in an awning covered "bench" built into a law office we had shade the entire time and nobody in front of us, it was perfect. the only downside is that we were technically behind the parade route - meaning the parade started just yards beyond where we were sitting. so we kind of had a behind-the-scenes point of view ... sort of.

there was a float for a local family fun center that had a gorilla and an empire state building on the trailer. they were parked in front of us for awhile and kate would not relax her death grip on me until he was out of sight. these pictures show her concern and her fixed gaze on said gorilla man:
she's even slightly craning her neck to make sure he's really driving away.

weston had a smidge of wolverine pride

anyway, it was a good parade, lots of actual floats (but no float from eagle mountain! kassie, i wanted to see your float and it was not there!!! what gives??), and when it was over, we walked back home with no crowds. it was great. weston entered the art show and we took a very brief gander at the car show and called our steel days participation complete.

oh and we saw some of the fireworks display while en route to purple turtle - best part of the day :)