Game Day: Post Festivity Wrap-Up and Analysis:

"First Prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Second Prize is a set of steak knives. Third Prize is you’re fired."

.......................................................- Alec Baldwin addressing the salesmen in "Glengarry Glen Ross".

...... After spending several days pondering the matter, I can only offer three possible explanations for our disappointing 3rd place finish:

1) Our Float wasn’t as good as the other two.

OH COME ON, IT CAN'T BE THAT!

2) My Decorating Prowess

is at such an incredibly high and cosmic level that
there exists no one who lives in this tiny
backwater of a town capable of judging me.

3) The Morbeck Family

are victims of a vast borough-wide conspiracy
to deny us our rightful place in society’s order.
Fellow Townspeople probably have late night
meetings down in the hollow by the old mill
(Okay, there is no such place here), torches
a’burning while dastardly acts of parade
retribution against us are planned.

ON SECOND THOUGHT...............

Whoa, Doggy! Move Over, Rover!
I've just plunged into a very deep pool of paranoid insanity. As I was digging the hole to sink that big yellow "Century 21 / For Sale" Sign out in the front yard, new information has recently reached this office. It was the Covered Wagons, not the Revolutionary War soldiers who won Grand Prize in the Family Float Division. These teenagers worked very hard on their float with no old guy help and deserved to emerge victorious.

Here is the Order of Finish:

FIRST PRIZE: WESTWARD HO!

I don't know if this was the real name of this float but then again, accuracy has never been my strong suit. Chelsey and Max Sokoloff add greatly to the cuteness of this one.

Second Prize: Revolutionary War Guys

Hey, these guys look a lot like the guys who beat us last time. Any one who can read (that excludes 5/7's of this household) knows that this isn't the real title for this float either. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure these people really did finish second, I've just assumed it. Fact checking has never been one of my strong suits either.

Third Prize: "Wait 'Til Next Year!"