Last Week's Travels

Last week we Traveled form Camp Lord Willing RV Park in Monroe MI to National RV Refrigeration in Shipshewana Indiana to have our refrigerator cooling unit replaced.  From there we stopped overnight at Branch County Fairgrounds in Coldwater MI.  Then on up to the Escapees Chapter 6 rally at the Gratiot County Fairgrounds in Alma MI.  After the rally we returned to Camp Lord Willing.

Back to Monroe

Had a wonderful time at the Chapter 6 rally, we are all settled back in at CLW.

Escapees Chapter #6 Rally

We are at the Escapees Chapter #6 Rally, pictures of our activities can be found on the Chapter Blog.

Camp Lord Willing RV Park

Camp Lord Willing RV Park 4th of July party.

Wyandotte Independence Day Parade

Going to the Wyandotte Independence Parade has been a Patton family tradition for decades, and Carole & I continued it this morning.

 The Wyandotte Youth Choir entertains the crowd with patriotic songs while we wait for the Parade

 The parade starts exactly at 10:00am a mile and a half north of downtown.

 There are celebrities before the parade.

 The parade is coming!

 There were politians in between these pictures and I did not take any of their pictures.  

 Viet Nam veterans

 more Vietnam vets

 Can't have a parade without clowns

 Wyandotte has large Polish and Itialian neighborhoods.

 Wyandotte "Old Fashioned" baseball team

 I don't know why Uncle Sam was being pulled by a hearse

 Downriver Classic Car Club

 Gotta have small Twirlers

 A golilla on a bike??

 Wyandotte Roosevelt High School Band

 All 3 of our kids are Alumni of the band

 And we graduated 3 generations of Pattons from Roosevelt

 and ya gotta have Bag Pipes

 and Shriners

 Oh! Oh! it's a hold-up

 the Sheriff Possee to the rescue

 more Shriners

The End