Celebrate the Hyde Park Way

Saturday was the Hyde Park 24th of July celebration. I think. It was a full week before the 24th and was positioned this year as more of a Founder's Day Celebration since Hyde Park is officially 150 years old this year. But it always happens the weekend before Pioneer Day, so that's what we'll go with.

This year our parade seemed longer. I don't know if there just wasn't that much going on around Cache Valley, but there seemed to be more action at the parade. We always have the Sky View High School band and the local royalty floats and Hyde Park ward primary kids but this year we had military folks and Utah State Aggie football and basketball players and even Big Blue (the Aggie mascot). There were more miscellaneous floats and more candy. William was in heaven:

Henry and Tessa wanted to ride on the Hyde Park 1st Ward primary float. They had fun and got to throw candy to the crowd.

After the parade we played games and had lunch and a sno-cone before heading home. Hyde Park sure knows how to throw a city celebration; the parade is just perfect for the kids and you can buy cute crafts and your kids can play cute games and ride cute rides and it's all just cute. Which, on a Saturday morning in mid-July, is just about perfect.