A Child Of Atom

TroutParade
Originally uploaded by Iam2814sGL.

Last saturday I participated in the time honored tradition of... The Trout Parade. There is a (very) small town here that gets a huge chunk of revenue from fly fishing and every year when the season opens they celebrate with a little festival and a parade. The parade lasts for a whopping 5 blocks, and the theatre was one of 20 entries in the parade, but it was still fun to march down the streets in celebration of fish. Fish Pride! (Sorry... I was having a moment there...) The stuffed fish in the shot ended up strapped to the front of Bohb's (formerly mentioned ATD) motorcycle, which was towing a small float featuring "Ms. Scene Shop." It was one of those moments where you had to get into the spirit, or feel silly, so I got into the spirit, what can I say? The actors mostly felt silly and left as quickly as they could after the parade ended, but a few of the techs stayed around and had some fun. We ate some really bad chinese (a welcome change after weeks of cold cuts for lunch) and went down to the local stream to try our hand at fishing for a few minutes. There weren't enough rods for me to get any casting in, but I did jump around on the rocks in the stream for a while, with the one lone (and TERRIBLY cute) actor type who had stayed behind for the fun. It was one of those great days that you can only really have in small town America.