Friday night was the Junior Ski-to-Sea Parade! We have marched in this parade with the co-op preschool almost every year since I can remember, but this was the first year Kai got to march in it. He watched the parade last year and loved it, so he was quite thrilled to be in it this year. If you look closely you can see Stinky Mouse was in the parade too, riding in the hood of Kai's jacket.

The parade is really low-key, and anybody can march in it - they do have some prizes, but we were there just for fun. As we stood around waiting to march a woman came by and asked us some questions about our group. We were carrying fish on sticks the children had decorated for a "theme" of "School of Fish", but weren't in formation or anything, most of the fish were lying on the ground. I thought she must have to talk with every group marching, but it turns out she was a judge and was nominating us for an award. Something about our ragtag bunch of kid-painted fish caught her eye and we ended up getting a Judge's Choice Award!