This past weekend Petaluma celebrated its history with the annual Butter and Eggs Day Parade. I've been meaning to take John and the kids for a while now, but for some reason we always miss it. Thanks to Facebook I got a reminder a couple of weeks ago that the Butter and Eggs Day Parade was approaching, so we made plans to attend...FINALLY!

When I was a little girl my family was ALWAYS in the parade. At that point, it was just one parade. My brother and I would join by representing our elementary school, and my Dad would participate by playing in his pipe band. However, I was amazed to see how big this parade has gotten. There are now two separate parades. One for the children (schools, sports, etc), and one for the rest of the community.

In the past this parade/event was popular with older inhabitants (and by "older" I mean 20-30 years old) of Petaluma because it was the one day in the year where open alcoholic beverages were allowed on the streets. Now that the parade/event is gaining popularity walking around with open alcoholic beverages was only permitted in the beer "gardens". I was actually happy to see this change. I don't need drunken college students spilling their beers and stumbling over my children.

After watching the parade for a while, we took the boys to get some lunch. There were food vendors as well as merchant vendors spread throughout the parade route. They were placed on side streets. We chowed down on corn dogs and curly fries. Then, we went to Starbucks, grabbed some iced coffee and watched the rest of the parade from our air conditioned sanctuary.

Before heading back to Pappy's house we stopped by the newly refurbished park on D street, and let the boys run around. Manny spent nearly 40 minutes on the swing, while Christian picked at the tan bark.

Earlier in the week I was graced with a bout of vertigo. It peaked on Monday and slowly started getting better. By Wednesday I thought I was nearly cured, so I decided to clean the kitchen...what a horrible idea. By the time I decided to stop I started getting the shakes because I was so dizzy.

I saw our nurse practitioner this past Friday. I wasn't prescribed any antibiotics. I was told that it would eventually go away on its own. She did prescribe something that would make my dizzy spells less annoying, but that medication was FORTY friggin dollars. I'll just deal with it...thanks.