State Fair Parade

For the past 3 weeks, Nancy and Jimmi (our new friend from Colorado Springs) slaved away to make a float for the Democratic Party to participate in the Eastern New Mexico State Fair parade. Many artists on the compound also helped painting, and I think we did make the BEST float in that parade. The theme of the parade this year was “86 years Down Home Country Fair”. Here is our float.

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The theme of our float is sewing. The big thing in the front is a ballot box wrapped with a quilt with words such as change (yes we do need changes!!), peace, etc. The red thing at the end of parade is a giant pin cushion with the names of people who are running for office. The round things in between are buttons. Everyone who pulled the floats wore T-shirt which said “powered by people” since all other floats are on trailers pulled by trucks with stinky exhaust.

on main street

Reactions from people are little cold since Roswell is a big republican town, but we heard cheering here and there. We walked about three miles on main street. It was actually my first state fair to go to and also to participate. It was a good experience after all.

hayride

And here is me after the parade getting a ride back to my car. Hayride!!