"Everybody Loves a Parade!"

Folks on Broad Street gathered for Sunday's Christmas parade in Charleston:

Parading by were:
Floats!

Friendly Dogs!

Queens!

Marching Bands!

Here come the Majorettes!

And the dancers!

More fun sights!

A ladylike pink bus!

Swashbuckling Pirates!

Cheerleaders!

ROTC and Military:

Belly Dancers!

Roller Derby!

                                                                               Little Angels

                                                                           More Floats!

                                                                           More Royalty

And music and entertainment!

What an awesome parade!

"Its Beginning to look Alot Like Christmas!"

The festivities in Charleston's Marion Square this evening were merry and bright!
(below) Shot inside the tree-pre lighting

(above)   Lively children performing "The Twelve Days of Christmas" ........and a Partridge in a Pear Tree!


Crowds enjoying the festivities of the cool evening:

Three wise men performed a lively and humorous skit just prior to three huge, live and very real camels paraded before us!

Santa arrives!

And with a magical touch, he lights the tree!

Kettle corn demonstration enjoyed by many:

I'd never had this treat before and am now hooked! That was the best popcorn I've ever ever had! Oh my gosh-----wash it down with an ice cold COKE and mercy it's good!

A wintry scene:

Afterwards we were off to the boat parade at the harbor!

(above) A pretty tree peeking from the window of one of the elegant old homes on the Battery

"Merry and Bright"

101 Wentworth Street in Charleston

"It was November---the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate windsongs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul."......L.M. Montgomery