Panguitch and Pioneer Day

We just got home from spending Pioneer Day in Panguitch, UT as is family tradition for Camylle's family. We love small town parades because they are so much more fun. Big city parades have a bunch of expensive floats and marching bands that just go on and on, but in Panguitch you get banners made with butcher paper and markers taped onto a truck The budget is small, but mostly goes to awesome treats they can still throw without threat of being sued.
Our two favorite floats are the D.O.U.P. (daughters of Utah pioneers) and the "Root Beer Float". The D.O.U.P. float is fun because it's a bunch of old grandmas dressed as pioneers with bonnets and skirts. They have a band of kazoos and spoons and homemade drums. It's a riot! The "Root Beer Float" is just a trailer with a bunch of coolers full of homemade root beer that they hand out cups of. It's delicious.

This trip was a lot harder than past times as we had to say goodbye to Grandma Miller. She hasn't been doing too well for the past few years and we don't anticipate she'll be around for more than a few more weeks. It was hard to see her not at all like herself and not know who we are, but just before we left to come home she seemed to remember us after minimal explaining. July just won't quite be the same without staying in that big white house on main street and climbing the apple tree in the front yard, or sitting on the yellow chairs on the front porch smelling the musky mountain rain. I don't think we'll ever abandon Panguitch in July, but it will never quite be the same.