Mosquito Festival

We drove over to Paisley, Oregon to camp on the Chewaucan River and join in the 23rd Annual Mosquito Festival Parade. Here Marielle and her friend Oceana ride with Smokey the Bear on the Forest Ranger's float.

After the parade we ate a BBQ lunch, listened to the Old Time Fiddlers, toured the Arts and Crafts displays and the Quilt Show, and shopped the Flea Markets. (I bought a nice old brass Zippo.)

As the afternoon warmed up we found a nice swimming hole just past the first cattle guard on the Chewaucan, and later that evening returned to our camp for hot dogs, cold drinks, and marshmallow roasts. The girls stayed up late catching frogs and snakes and minnows.

Besides her brother and sister and Mom and Dad, Oceana has a grandmother and two great-grandmothers living in Paisley, a town about half the size of Gold Hill.