4th of July Celebration Parade - 7/4/2011

This is the first year for a July 4th parade in Waikiki. There were no fancy floats, just local participants who wanted to show their patriotism and most of them walked the parade route. I was surprised to see so many people had lined the streets to see the early evening parade. It was great fun. I hope they'll have it again next year.
This group was riding on top of the double decker tour bus.
There was Bethany the surfer whose movie was to be shown at Sunset on the Beach.
Then there were some just in awe of being in the parade.
Of course there were pageant queens, who also walked the entire parade.
There were also ethnic groups.
The Military...
And the Law Enforcement.
Then there were these clowns. I was busy taking photos of them I totally missed the Confederates who were walking right behind them. argh!!Then the biker group...
And then these dudes who were taking pics w/ the crowd... aren't they the ghost busters? Hard to tell w/o the music...
Finally, I KNEW they had to show up to join the party...