Saturday February 9

 The kids enjoyed strolling up and down the parade route while waiting for Iris to start.

 After going through all the trouble to bring the ladder and seat, neither Noah or Elle would sit on it (until we put it on the ground)!

 Noah enjoyed standing on the ladder without the seat.

We lucked out... it was supposed to rain, but it held out for us to go to Iris.  We watched it at the very beginning in front of Sami's house... we had a big area to ourselves since the parade didn't technically start until 2 blocks later.  :)