Anoka- The Halloween Capital of the World

Many of the cities royalities gathered Saturday to celebrate Halloween, where? Of course, Anoka, the Halloween Capital of the World. On Saturday, October 31st, the royalities from all over met and had a royal brunch in Anoka at the VFW's with coffee and dougnuts preparing for a long day. Many of the royalities were in charge of setting up and taking down their floats so at eleven a.m. the girls started getting ready for this HUGE parade. Every city was dressed up in a Halloween themed float and costumes. Once the royalty set up their floats they would have the chance to go trick or treat at the other floats. The girls would then get ready for the parade to start at one o'clock. Some of the royalty didn't even start in the parade route until three o'clock. Saturday was very cold and many of the Halloween costumes were hard to see under all of the layers the girls had on. After the parade there was a pre-cornoration dinner where all of the girls had the opporunity to get warm and get ready for the cornoration. This year there were fifty-one girls trying for three crowns! What a amazing turn out! Here are the new girls that were crowned: Amanda Funder, Erin Hilliard, & Chelsea Tulupan.

The floats were so great this year despite the cold harsh October weather, here are some pictures of the floats:

( I am the scarecrow:)