The Storch Family: Week 118

June 1-7

This blog post is mostly about how we spent our Memorial Day. I just wanted to take a moment to recognize a special person we had in our thoughts on this day. Army Sgt Robert Sisson Jr. who made the ultimate sacrifice to assure the rest of us our freedom in America. Thank you for your service.

I was fortunate to have Memorial Day weekend off and since it is a federal holiday, Ed had it off too! We woke up and had a nice family breakfast together, and then talked about what we wanted to do for the day. We had already agreed that we wanted to have a nice family day with Jack, but hadn't yet made official plans. We thought maybe the beach...but we do that all the time. The park...boring and hot. Then Ed remembered there must be some kind of parade on Memorial Day and he looked it up online. We found one in Downtown Historic Melbourne and decided we would give it a try!

Scoping out a spot in the shade!

Waiting patiently for the parade to start...

Hurry up parade!

Hot! :)

We all got ready, drove down to the parade, parked, and found a nice spot in the shade. Jack was super excited. We told him he would see a band, fire trucks, police cars, etc. He patiently waited for the parade to start. While we waited there were police men on motorcycles driving up and down the parade route. One stopped in front of Jack and gave him a shiny gold sticker shaped like a police badge. He thought it was so cool!!

Waiting for everything to start...

Clapping his hands for the parade!

Cool antique fire truck!

When everything finally started Jack couldn't keep his eyes off the action. At some point people passed out American flags and Jack just kept waving his in excitement! He saw tons of neat things like antique cars, floats honoring those who gave their lives, fire trucks, groups marching, bands, etc. It was pretty cool! The whole thing took around an hour and after it was done Jack looked at us and said, "More parade, please!" It was so cute!