The first thing in the parade after the tractors was a guy wrapped in twinkle lights riding a segway down the street. (No idea how to comment on that. What the heck?) The rest of the parade was your typical small-town parade-- flatbeds covered in astroturf with the staff of the Dodge-Chrysler dealership waving, high school marching bands with pom girls, old folks sitting on the back of convertibles, etc. We did get to see Vonzell from American Idol. She's a Fort Myers native, too.

Eventually we got cold and went home a bit early.

Oh- one other thing that blew my mind, er, I mean, we saw. The motorcycle police gang did a little "act"-- two lines of four bikes each going south, three lines of four bikes each going north, towards each other. Can you picture? The groups drove toward each other but slipped between the other lines so as to avoid collisions. Pretty neat, yeah, whatever. But THEN-- one of the genius cops stood up-- STOOD UP-- on his seat with his arms outstretched and drove south through the north-headed lines, threading the needle so to speak. Sorry for the awkward description-- but seriously...? Cops? Standing on their bike seats? Ok, so does that mean that if I become a parent I should run with scissors, but only the kids should not? Does anyone else see anything funny about that? Things just don't make sense down here!