Costumed kids and their families walk down Central Avenue in Faribault.
THEY WERE, OH, so cute. What else can you say about kids—from babes to elementary-aged—dressed in costumes for a parade through downtown Faribault during Saturday’s Fall Festival?
You can only smile, as big and sunny as the autumn day that was absolutely, undeniably, gorgeous.
Singly or hand-in-hand they walked, or danced, or rode on dad’s shoulders, or slept in a stroller as they paraded down Central Avenue.
Fairy-princesses. Two Dorothys. A contingent of scarecrows and a lion, but no tin man (that I noticed). A pasty-faced skeleton. Kids role-playing, the center of attention for several blocks on the main street of a Midwestern town on a Saturday morning.
And then afterward, they scrambled for treasure in hay, stroked paint upon pumpkins and drew chalk art on pavement.
All the while parents and grandparents smiled and snapped photos on a stunning day that was more summer-like than autumn for the kids in costume on Central.
The wings of a little princess on parade.
Dragon rides.
A slumbering babe and doll, ride through the parade.
Winged princesses were by far the most popular characters.
Fifteen-month-old Erin dressed as a lion.
The ruby red slippers of one of two Dorothys.
Princess Isabella, 5, paints a pumpkin.
Faribault High School freshman Sagal of the Students Together Offering Peer Support, paints a heart on the face of Ariah, 4, in the kids' activities area on Central Avenue..
Kelsie, 3, paints a pumpkin after the costume parade.
© Copyright 2010 Audrey Kletscher Helbling
Minnesota Prairie Roots 
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