The Queen's Parade . . .

"I will honor Christmas in my heart,

and try to keep it all the year."

- Charles Dickens

On Tuesday I shared some general photos from the Dickens on the Strand in Galveston,

a yearly tradition with this being our 4th in attendance.

Today...the Queen's Parade.

We found a spot a waited and for the parade to start, but as our luck would have it

a crowd formed right in our viewing path. So, I crossed the street to get a better position

where there weren't many people, just to have another person with two cameras dart in front 

of me more times than I would like to say. Father Christmas, missed it. The queen in her

carriage, yep, missed it.

Then at the end of the parade when the Texas snow came down (aka dish soap bubbles)

my camera malfunctioned and I missed that too.

But, I did manage to have really good timing on one of them . . . 

  

THIS ONE! . . . Sometimes the timing God's are on your side.

The Battle of Galveston reenactment crew - coming up next month.

And, this is what a whole lot of my shots looked like...someone always stepping in my way, oh well!

We were lucky to make it several blocks to the very end of the "bed races" after trying to figure

out how to get my camera working again. This was one of those 'one shot' deals before I almost got run over by a reindeer bed! lol

Always such a good time, although there was no 'real' snow machine this year for the kids

to throw snowballs, and the elephants were missing? One year one of the elephants managed to try and steal the glasses right off my face. Just in case you were wondering, elephant spit doesn't

smell so good! ;)

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