Every October the little town of Marcus hosts a Cider Fest that is well attended. It starts with a parade on Saturday. This year the weather was so nice it seemed the attendees and cars in the parade doubled!
We spotted Dan, Jamie and our Grands arriving in Jamie’s 1964 T-bird. Jamie’s Granny bought the car for Jamie’s Grandfather. Jamie inherited the car.
All the usual suspects were lined up to enjoy the parade, Granny Great, Granny, Dan, Jamie, Gramps, Addy and JJ. Addy and JJ were ready to gather all the candy that the parade participants threw to the kids along the parade route.
The highway is shut down for the duration of the parade.
There was a clown this year.
Royalty came from nearby communities.
Batman was unexpected.
Our state representative and his family participated, too.
The sheriff was the caboose for the parade keeping the regular traffic at bay for the duration.
I took this photo of our kids/grands in front of the t-bird. I asked Auntie Lolo if she could clean up the photo and the photo below is the result.
Isn’t that cool? Are you able to do that with your photos?
Me and my Grands!
This year one of the choices at the food stalls was smoked turkey legs. We decided on this treat.
I snapped this shot on the way home and you can see part of the area across the Columbia that was burned.
We enjoyed our caramel apple when we got home from the Fest, delicious. We also brought home a half gallon of fresh apple cider.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
Fun parade and great photos of the family! Take care, have a great week ahead.
What great pictures from this fun event! Love the cleaned up photo- very impressive! The food all looks great and that picture of you and your grands is so good. A sweet reminder of a fun day. Have a great Monday!
That’s a sweet photo of you and your grands. Looks like a fun day with perfect weather. We bought fresh cider last week from an orchard. I like mine warm. Have a nice week!
…it sure draws a crowd!
Looks like a fu festival to take in. Have a wonderful week.
Oh – it looks like y’all had so much fun! I love a parade!!
Oh I bet that cider will be delicious. Amazing cars and costumes. Looks like you had a lot of fun. B x
Wonderful photos of the family, great photos of the parade. Sad to see the effects of the fire.
Looks like a fun day and so nice to see all the photos.
What a fun festival! Hope the grands got lots of candy . . . although I’d rather have that caramel apple! No, I do not have Auntie Lolo’s skills with cleaning up photos! I especially love the photo of you with your grands!
What a fun tradition. The picture that Auntie Lolo cleaned up – I went back and forth looking at the sky, the trees and didn’t see any difference. Then noticed the people! And how did she get the river view on the right side to appear?? My phone is very old, it doesn’t do anything like that! Looks like you had perfect weather too. Love that picture of you and your grands!
There is so much to love about small town festivals! And you served us a delightful one. Yes, to the caramel apple and time with family!