The parade is basically the high school and middle school football teams, cheer teams, dance teams, volleyball teams, basketball teams and any other sport team you can muster together parading in front of their proud families on a trail from the school to the football stadium (which, by the way, is humongous!) and not forgetting the band -which looks as though it's every other member of the school NOT in the sports teams!
It also includes the current year's homecoming king and queen nominations - they're now calling them dukes and duchesses (hmmmmm..... I wonder why?) and there are at least two nominations per grade.
This year they had a procession of vintage Corvettes and Harleys too, which was noisy but really cool, and a bunch of local sponsors throwing sweets at the spectators from a variety of vehicles including monster trucks!
Here's some of the parade....
Thereafter, it's onto the field where the cheer team welcome the football squad (aaahhhh) and the band strut their stuff, in formation, to some really good tunes whilst also playing for the dance team to put on a display and the cheer team (again) to show us what they're made of.....
I was really impressed with the complexity of the tunes and moves the band displayed - nothing for You've been Framed here!
To end the 'Pep Rally' (no idea why it's called that) the homecoming nominees were introduced to the spectators. There was a lot of audience participation and it was a fun couple of hours. Also, the kids got early release from school that day..... it's serious stuff folks!!!!
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