Celebration for Export, PA

Picture Note: Aaaahh poofy hair! From: Caitlin
Export is a little town right next to Murrysville. Today they were celebrating 100 years of being the town of Export, Pennsylvania! Our cub scout troop does several service projects and several of our boys in the troop live in Export....so we joined the parade!! It was so fun and Caitlin and I cheered really LOUD! We yelled "ALRIGHT TROOP 213!!! WAHOOOO!!" Then we would move down the route of the parade and cheer again. The parade route was only about 2-3 blocks but we cheered 4 different times for them!! They were embarrassed but you know they loved it deep, deep, deep down in their boyish hearts....It rained all morning but it was a great day!

Also,the anniversary means the first coal from mines were exported, hence the name, from Export. 1911-2011.

My mom loves bagpipes, they even played for us because we cheered! It was great!

Soooo, we went back to the festivities later this afternoon. The sun finally came out and the afternoon dried out nicely. There was a little petting zoo for the kids. They even got to feed them if they wanted to. Here are some baby pigs....ahhhh

This is an alpaca. It's looked like a mini llama. It was so cute and look how small he was. Tommy really liked him....Whenever the animals ate out of the kids hands they would laugh because it tickled. The animals were really good with the kids.

Jord has a great laugh, it is funny and makes me laugh. It is cute... Don't tell him I said that.
(Cate wrote this)

This goat would not eat out of my hand! It was smarter and it would only eat out of the cup. Some of the goats were fighting over the food. The one in the picture jumped up on me, and finally got the food.

The alpaca is byTommy, it was way soft.

Bounce House! Everyone JUMP!!

They had a mining backdrop you could get your picture taken. Caitlin realllllly wanted to do it! So, Jord is holding the lantern and Tommy and Caitlin are standing on the tracks....The mining history in this town is amazing and even in the city. To think how it was back then....I am going to do some studing on this subject and I will let you know what I find out.

We went boating on the Alleginy River about a month ago, and it was so fun! There were so many old mining "contraptions" on the sides of the river. To think how they were used and all the men and women that mined for coal in this state. It was so amazing to be on that river, to have the boys knee boarding under actual huge bridges! They loved it and so did we!!