Alien Parade 2010

It's the Alien Parade again! The McMinnville Alien parade and festival comes but once a year. Sad to say, I have it on pretty good authority that the famous UFO photo is a fake, but the parade is still fun.

We have everything you'd expect from a Yamhill County parade celebrating aliens:

Men driving tractors:
Girls waving to the crowd:
Kung Fu Avatar aliens:
More Kung Fu Avatar aliens...
Wacky contraptions:

Pregnant teenagers:
And, of course, Count Dooku's girlfriend:

Evergreen Aviation Museum

The air museum in McMinnville is the home of the Spruce Goose, in case you didn't know. My dad didn't, and he's a lifelong plane geek. Pilot, mechanic, EAA member, Oshkosh attendee, Pacific Coast Air Museum volunteer, etc.

The Spruce Goose is a big plane.



They have a tiny one if the big one is too overwhelming.


Of course, the big hit is the toy store Museum Shop, at least for Max. "Please can I have the Boeing set?"
"No. It's FORTY dollars."

More abstract crops of fusilage graphics here.