To the North
directly in front
This is from the driveway. The theme this year was 'Potatoes on Masquerade'. Honestly, where else in the world would people make big paper mache' sculptures of potatoes with Marti-Gras masks on? I LOVE Spud Day! I was honored to have them basically in my own front yard.
View to the South
Okay, so I have several driveways. However, that does NOT mean they are PUBLIC driveways! I went outside and the one white car was my Brother-in-laws car, so it was all good. However, this scooter, yeah, didn't know who it was and WHY they felt it was okay to park in MY driveway! Usually I have people park IN FRONT of my driveway (totally rude and illegal), but this was the first time someone parked IN the driveway (TRESPASSING!!!!). I took this picture so I could go to the police station later and complain. I didn't need to after all, as one of my friends in the parade said to me when she saw me 'Hey! Parked in your driveway! Hope that's okay!'. At least it was a friend! (No police necessary!)
My favorite masquerading potatoes in parade! Yeah, those are people sitting amongst the potatoes.
And here we have the FAMOUS Shelley Mascots. The King and Queen Russets! Its okay to laugh, I do. ALL. THE. TIME.
More potatoes.
This is my neightbor, Matt. He was watching from the roof of the shed. The only problem with this seat is that you can't pick up all the candy they throw!
Now THIS is one of my favorite pictures I took at Spud Day. That cute little Bee on the back is one of my students, Kelsey Cox. She is dressed like a Bee for the Cox's Honey float. Well, not really float, more series of men dressed like beekeepers walking and driving bright yellow four-wheelers. The beekeepers were giving out honey sticks, but Kelsey was throwing 'Bit 'O Honey's'. Isn't she the CUTEST!
Now to THE MOST IMPORTANT part of the parade. Tacey marched with her Dance Team at Elite Studios. She's holding a BIG bag of Cinnamon Bears that they were throwing to the crowd.
She's also wearing her cute team warm-ups and has her hair and makeup done for the performance on the free stage.
Yep. People do things like this on purpose on Spud Day. Gotta LOVE the Potato Sack Dresses.
This also one of my favorites. It is the float from the local grocery store. Bet you couldn't guess that, could ya?
At the end of the Spud Day festivities they have a Demolition Derby. This car must have been mine: It had my name on it!
Yep. They made a potato out of potato sacks. Yep. I don't know who made this 'float'. All I know is nowhere else do you see a fake potato this big.
Now, THIS is BY FAR my favorite moment of the Parade. This guy (I assume it is a guy, although I doubt his masculinity after this pictures) is the 'Anytime Fitness' guy. He is a living Logo! My neighbor almost landed in the hospital from laughing so hard. He thought, and rightly so, that the guy looked like a Nexium Pill. He SOOOOO TOTALLY DOES! And, yes. Laugh. Laugh HARD. Laugh HARD at this guy. If he has the guts to wear this suit, he deserves the laughter.
Koda ALWAYS gets to go to the parade, but this year we took him to the park as well. He was HAPPY! See? He is smiling!
Another AWESOME part of Spud Day is the potatoes. THEY ARE FREE! And you get free milk too! They come complete with butter, sour cream and cheese! Enough cholesterol for a week in one simple little meal! I was talking with the organizers and this year they had 10,000 potatoes on hand to give away. They ran out. . .
Oh, yes. Another AWESOME part of Spud Day. The Spud Tug. Yep. This is the pit BEFORE the infamous mashed potatoes.
Tacey and her team performed on the Free Stage. She is the third one.
In performance. She the one all the way on the left in the front row.Little Video Clip.
Oh. YES!!!!!! They have to mix up the INSTANT Mashed Potatoes in a concrete mixer because it is the only thing big enough!
It takes most of the Fire Depatment and those GREAT BIG boxes filled with potato flakes to make this AMAZINGLY Funny event take place!Spreading the potatoes evently in the pit. Hee Hee!
Lots and lots of Mashed potatoes!
One of the privledges (?) of being Miss Russett is that you get to determine when the potatoes are ready for the Spud Tug. She gets to do this by EATING A FORK FULL OF THEM!
They began this year with Celebrity teams. This is Channel 3 losing to Channel 8.
This is Channel 3 after the fact. They are just about to lose again to KUPI 97, one of the Radio Stations.
This is Channel 8 also losing to KUPI. Then KUPI lost to the Kiwanis Club. (The sponsors of Spud Day.)
Then comes the kid's heats. This is my neighbor Holly right in the front. Either her team was going to win the whole thing or she was going in.
They won several matches and made it to the finals, but in the end. . .
She went in!
This is an example of how NOT to Spud Tug. See the guy sitting? Yep, that DID NOT help his team AT ALL!
The best ones are when they pull so hard SEVERAL of the team members go in. 5 of the 8 people on this team went in. It was AWESOME! I did miss the picture of the kid who was hanging on the rope OVER the pit like a Kapuchin Monkey. He finally fell in, but it was completely CLASSIC!
The best part of the Adult competition is watching the LDS Missionaries compete in their white shirts, ties and suit pants. Every team has a name, this year we had Tater Tots, Curly Fries, Spud Muffins, and several other potato inspired names. The Missionaries were the Strippling Warriors.
In the end they weren't Strippling enough.
I've actually seen years where the Missionaries were a lot potato covered than this. This Elder got off easily.
Shane and Dallin had a 'cool' dessert at Spud Day. Sub Zero is an Ice Cream place where they put all the ingredients for Ice Cream in a bowl, then insert liquid nitrogen to make it into Ice Cream.
How 'cool' is that? It's a nice frosty dessert and a science project all in one! I stuck with the yummy traditional Strawberry Funnel Cake. Nope, no calories in THAT one!
Dallin opted for a Chocolate one. He has since decided that he should stay with Strawberry next time!
Mac. It was a hot day.
One of the privledges (?) of being Miss Russett is that you get to determine when the potatoes are ready for the Spud Tug. She gets to do this by EATING A FORK FULL OF THEM!
They began this year with Celebrity teams. This is Channel 3 losing to Channel 8.
This is Channel 3 after the fact. They are just about to lose again to KUPI 97, one of the Radio Stations.
This is Channel 8 also losing to KUPI. Then KUPI lost to the Kiwanis Club. (The sponsors of Spud Day.)
Then comes the kid's heats. This is my neighbor Holly right in the front. Either her team was going to win the whole thing or she was going in.
They won several matches and made it to the finals, but in the end. . .
She went in!
This is an example of how NOT to Spud Tug. See the guy sitting? Yep, that DID NOT help his team AT ALL!
The best ones are when they pull so hard SEVERAL of the team members go in. 5 of the 8 people on this team went in. It was AWESOME! I did miss the picture of the kid who was hanging on the rope OVER the pit like a Kapuchin Monkey. He finally fell in, but it was completely CLASSIC!
The best part of the Adult competition is watching the LDS Missionaries compete in their white shirts, ties and suit pants. Every team has a name, this year we had Tater Tots, Curly Fries, Spud Muffins, and several other potato inspired names. The Missionaries were the Strippling Warriors.
In the end they weren't Strippling enough.
I've actually seen years where the Missionaries were a lot potato covered than this. This Elder got off easily.
Shane and Dallin had a 'cool' dessert at Spud Day. Sub Zero is an Ice Cream place where they put all the ingredients for Ice Cream in a bowl, then insert liquid nitrogen to make it into Ice Cream.How 'cool' is that? It's a nice frosty dessert and a science project all in one! I stuck with the yummy traditional Strawberry Funnel Cake. Nope, no calories in THAT one!
Dallin opted for a Chocolate one. He has since decided that he should stay with Strawberry next time!
Mac. It was a hot day.It was an AWESOME day.
I LOVE SPUD DAY!
Danielle
