The Apple Blossom parade is my favorite parade of the year. It has the best weather, you have plenty of time to explore downtown Winchester before the parade starts, and it’s the longest and most crowded one so you have so many people to look at and thank for being there. In 2019 that parade did not fit all of the normal criteria. We spent most of the time before the parade started huddled under the drive thru teller trying to not get soaked by the storm. Eventually the rain seemed to let up and the parade was back on! As we begin to drive the route we quickly realized that this parade was in-fact not going to be a dry one. The storm clouds rolled back in and it poured on all of us in that open cab firetruck on the streets of downtown Winchester. As we made our way through the long parade we were halted a dead stop for what felt like 20 minutes, sitting just getting rained on by every angle. They had stopped the entire parade to prepare the cameras to televise the parade that year. All we could do was laugh and we bring up that 2019 parade every year when we pass the spot we were stuck getting soaked by that storm.
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