Day: October 29, 2023

I’ve heard about this event for many years now as Bryan, Corinne, and family participate. Bryan gets a big kick out of decorating their golf cart each year. This year he hit the decorating ball right out of the ball park. And Corinne and the girls worked on the costumes.

Here comes Bryan and Corinne’s viking ship golf cart as it enters the final stretch of the parade.

This event was an…event. There were lots of people at the IOP rec center, which was hopping with music, speciality events on the fields, children and many adults in their Halloween costumes, and the 54 decorated golf carts that ended their parade at the main rec center building after a route around the neighborhood streets.

Here are some of the carts lined up in numerical order before the parade started:

And here are some of the carts passing me at the end of the parade. I just chose at random as all the carts were amazing.

This “Pac Man” cart was a 2-cart entry. If you know this game, you’ll understand it better than I do, but the crowd loved it.

And here’s Bryan’s viking ship again–which he created with cardboard, pcv pipe, ropes, lots of zip ties, and paint.

Some of the carts ended their parade by going through the white “haunted house” tent building to the left. Many were too high though and just continued back down the street to find parking places.

There were all kinds of dogs at the event as well, many riding the parade. All seemed to be having as much fun as the people.

Here is Bryan in his costume before the parade:

And the family:

It was a warm day, so they did not use the bottom parts of their costumes, like the leggings and boots.

Clearly, Halloween is a huge event here. I am a bit shell-shocked as having lived for 19 years in rural Maine, where children went into town to “trick or treat,” I have not given out treats.

Now I hope I have enough…