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Winthrop 49er's Day Parade.......Winthrop Washington


























For several years we have spent Mothers day weekend in Winthrop enjoying the 49er's day parade.....lots of beautiful horses, wagons, firetrucks, mules, outfitters and all kinds of exciting things.....I think my favorite part of the parade is the nice mix of horses... especially the larger draft horse types.....it is really neat to watch them pull wagons, carts down the street....I love all their harnesses, and shiny tack that they wear.....huge crowd of people showed up to enjoy the parade and festivities in the park....the weather was hot.....sitting or standing on the black top was not the coolest place to be...burn city....the numerous fire trucks that rolled through first seemed to stretch the parade out a little longer.....a very slow procession.....by then we had a number of sweaty cranky acting horses....almost had a rodeo or two before they were under control.....but a really fun day...from there we ate and walked through the park....love how the highway 20 is closed and folks have to wait unless they decide to drive the long detour around.....pretty comical....traffic chokes up the highway quiet a ways waiting for the parade to finish and folks to get out of the street....of course the parade goers take full advantage of this and clog the highway on the way to the park.....we walked through a couple of stores and then made our way down the Methow....the Methow river is churning....very very high for this early....it was higher than I have seen it in a long time right at the town of Winthrop....with all the heat the snow is melting out of the Cascades fast.....after our week of heat we are back to normal May chilly evening and morning weather.....Interesting season so far...never know what to expect one day to the next.
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