I survived Christmas Parade 2008 !!!

Today was the Christmas Parade for Tifton. It was the 4th time my History Club youngins and I have participated in this event. It followed a different route this year and was held later in the day. Catie was my valuable helper again this year. This is the third time she has helped me and she is getting pretty good about it. By the time we got back home after the parade, we had walked about 4 miles !!! Needless to say, no treadmill exercises tonight...I am proud of myself because last year I couldn't even walk half the route. I did have a crisis just before the parade however. I was sitting down on the curb with some of my students when I discovered that somehow I had lost my phone. I looked around and had a student call my phone and we heard it ring....from the drain hole we were sitting on top of!! We lifted the cover off it and looked down...sure enough....there was my poor little phone....laying there....just looking up at me. The battery was laying beside it and the back cover was about two feet away! I ended up walking down to where Chief Smith and a couple of his officers were standing. They. of course, laughed at my predictment and graciously came do my rescue. All the way back to the drainhole, he kept hollering out " Yep, She dropped her phone down the sewer!" (Boy, with friends like him....you know the rest...) One of the officers climbed down the hole and rescued my phone. Amazingly, when I put it all back together...IT WORKED!!
I took Lacey with me to the parade and she behaved so well! She loves to walk and loves to get hugs and she got plenty of both today. It was really neat to see the reaction of the little ones along the parade route. She would go over to them and then sit down and wait patiently for them to pet her. I just love her!
I just realized that I have never posted pics of her. Here are a couple of pics of her in her Christmas Parade outfit and other things she has been involved in.