One of the communities favorite events of the annual Washington State Apple Blossom Festival in Wenatchee is the Youth Parade, held the first Saturday of the Festival.

This event is purely for the kids at Apple Blossom time.   The schools have bands, and floats and other kid related businesses have entries as well, and kids of all sizes can just walk along the route. 
One of the marching bands


Here are some of the pictures from today's parade.  The first photo is the John Newbery Elementary School Float, "A Slice of Paradise".  My friend and business partner, Shelley Granger (waving in the picture), was the chairperson of the committee for designing and constructing the float, featuring a monster red apple at the end of the rainbow.  She had a wonderful group of volunteers to help and they spent the entire week before the parade putting it together.   


In my humble opinion, it was the most fun and colorful entry in the parade.  I might be slightly biased, but I don't think so.   I could see the big red apple from way up the parade route, so knew they were coming!  Shelley... you and your crew are awesome!


Here are some more pictures.  Sorry they aren't better organized.  I'm having some trouble with the formatting features.      





And, here is a link to another post on my Active Rain Wenatchee real estate blog, with more pictures of the youth parade this morning.