Gimme and I were in another parade. We have to be there so early - classic "hurry up and wait". We got there at 9:00 for a parade that starts at 11:00. There were 118 entries in the parade and we were number 100... so our truck pulled out from the curb around 12:30. Then the parade lasted an hour. Gimme and I were both very tired when this one was done
Needless to say she looked stunning in her festive patriotic wear. Gimme generally doesn't mind me dressing her up, but she's decidedly unimpressed with the whole hat thing.
The setup for this parade was very different. We all had to be in the vehicle, so Gimme wasn't able to interact with the crowd like she did in Rochester. That sure didn't keep her from being the center of attention. All along the parade route I kept hearing, "look at the dog", "wow, a Dalmatian", "isn't she pretty" and "are those spots brown?". The rest of us definitely felt like we were just there to frame the real attraction.
The funny thing was watching her during the parade. Since there were people on both sides, we humans alternated which direction we were facing (sitting on hay bales). Gimme ended up facing toward the back.
She would look to the left at people for a little bit and then shift her attention to the people on the right. She went back and forth with this the whole time and fast enough that I'm sure everyone got to see her pretty face.
Now all she has to do is learn the beauty queen wave.
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Very cute. Not surprised she thought the hat was a bit much. Her Great Uncle Jordi would never wear hats--until he was on a nursing home visit. Go figure.
Funny that Jordi decided to tolerate hats for nursing home visits. I think Gimme will learn to tolerate them too, but that particular hat was waaaay too big and so I had to modify it so it didn't cover most of her head. I don't think it was very comfortable.
Jordi always like wearing fancy headbands the most--maybe Gimme would tolerate those better? Anyway-she would look so cute in them.
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