February 16th I was in the Vernon Winter Carnival parade. Before the parade all of the visiting royalty hung out and took endless selfies and just chatted a bit. Then the Carnival Society took a beautiful group picture of all the royalty. Once the parade started I was shocked to see how many people lined the streets of Vernon which is considered to be small but since the Winter Carnival is for all of the North Okanagan about 4 towns and villages got together to watch which was amazing. I love parades because the look on kids faces are priceless. The theme of the Parade was Mardi Gras, my mom had made a beautiful mask for me to wear, the crowd loved when I put it on. The newspaper even got a beautiful shot of me with the mask up. The parade was great, and it was fun to see all of the royalty from the surrounding communities for one last time during Winter Carnival.