Monday, May 4, 2009

Parade Day For Mesquite Day

Small town . . . gotta love it. Where else would you find seventy year old scantily clad and tap dancing down main street? This was parade was better than it had been for the last three years, but still, I was surprised at the amount of people over 70 in the parade. I really think the fountain of youth has been found somewhere in or around this town.
These were the young princesses . . .
The boyscouts . . .
The old farmer with the old tractor . . .
I don't know how old this clown was . . . Cambria was brave enough to give him a high five, but Kiera has a fear of clowns . . .
The Rodeo Princess . . . Cambria has a new dream to aspire too . . .
The old covered wagon with an add for the new sushi bar coming to town . . .
The horse and carriage that was at my girlies b-day party . . .
The cowboys . . .
The Indians . . . I mean Native Americans . . .
Mrs. Senior Mesquite . . . I've got a new goal to aspire too . . . Hot rods . . .

Old fire truck . . .

Old military vehicle . .
The MesquiteToes . . . a tap dancing senior citizen group . . . You should have seen them perform . . . the stripped down to these t-shirts that had bikini's painted on them . . . very scandalous.
The red hatters . . .

Seeing all these old woman thriving and doing what they love without qualm or evidence of embarrassment makes me wonder what I will do when I am old . . . so I worked out a schedule:

Monday: swim to work out at the local rec center(early in the morning of course so I don't scar any young people ) and then at night I'll go to the empty nesters FHE.

Tuesday: Library day: I'll spend some time perusing may favorite novels in a cushy chair somewhere . . . Then I'll head off to practice my dance routine with the MesquiteToes Dancing Ambassadors. They have even been booked on cruise ships, so you know it will be a lot of serious work.

Wed: back to the pool in the early morning and then off to play Bingo.

Thursday: I'll make this be my official doctor day, Old people are always at the doctor or so they tell me. I might as well be proactive about it. We'll make this date night too, that way Kai and I can still keep the spark alive.

Friday: another day at the rec center and a day to write all my grandchildren and read ALL the mail they will have sent me. I thin I will also use this day to campaign to be Mrs. Senior Mesquite. I'll also make sure my tiara's from my previous wins are polished nicely.

Saturday: Grocery Shopping day, at least this seems to be senior citizen day in Mesquite and digital scrapbooking and family history day.

Sunday: Church and nap day . . .it's been a long week. It's hard to be old . . . Youth is wasted on the young!

6 comments:

Heidi @ Honeybear Lane said...

Funny Amy...loved that you have already got your retirement all worked out! Way to plan ahead. I'm just hoping that I am healthy enough to do any of those things! What was the parade for? May day? Anyway, still fun, I love parades.

P.S. Are they officially "American Indians" now?

JoAnna Anderson said...

I LOVE your schedule for the retirement days. Make sure you print that off some day. Although, you forgot to book in lunch dates with girlfriends and hit the swap meet! Gotta love that. Lots of great pics of the parade. I bet they were thrilled to see such a young crowd. I'm jealous you guys are all in your summer clothes...I NEED SOME SUN!

Fritters said...

love your schedule! sounds great! no card games or bingo nights for you, eh?

HaYn Mama said...

You are just killing me with your senior schedule!!! I'm just dying laughing and I want to get me some of those shiny tights and a pink tasselly shirt... my gosh the things people think they can get away with in their old age!LOL

What a fun day for you guys... and Kiera... when I was your age I was very afraid of clowns. Then one day I put on some clown make-up and a red nose for Halloween and I got over it really quick because it was fun!

Mrs. C. Robbins said...

fun pictures!!

My Many Coloured Days said...

You are hilarious! You forgot to include blogging and keeping up with other "old" friends!!! I'll be at BINGO night with you.