Today was a busy one with our annual trip to see the Venice Boat Parade. Dave placed 7 chairs at the dock side in Nokomis yesterday and amazingly they were still there when we arrived tonight. Prior to the boat parade we spent an hour on Nokomis Beach – first time this year. I even managed to get my feet wet.
While we waited for the parade to start at 6 PM, we got to see the drumming ceremony get started. The weather was spectacular today – 80 degrees at 5 PM – and still 75 degrees at 9 PM. The usual “stars” were getting the event underway.
We only had to walk across the street to where our chairs were waiting and there we settled in to wait for the first boats to motor past us. It is hard to imagine that this was our 6th parade and by far the warmest night. Over 50 well lit boats participated in this year’s event. It’s estimated that upwards of 60,000 people lined the route from Nokomis to Venice. This 25th year of the parade almost didn’t happen – clearly not from a lack of spectators, but because there were not enough vessels. A campaign to get more participants worked!
To finish off the night we headed to Sharkys for a late supper and a mango bango!
Molly, Carol, Mary Evelyn and Debbie
Gus, Dave and George
Adventure Logan 
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