A woman on a vehicle covered with laundry product bottles ironed continuously. A huge squirrel and a fluffy fur rabbit looked ready to terrorize the population, their expressions anything but benign. A rat zigzagged along the street, dragging its tail. There were three boats, one of them upside-down. A 'tank' complete with weaponry, was entirely covered in books, labeled "Weapon of Mass Instruction". One van had been converted into a stone castle, complete with drawbridge, another completely covered in a Lego brick scale map of the world. A small girl sat on the red fabric tongue of a huge metal dinosaur.

One car was covered in replicas of works by various famous artists; others were tributes to just one artist, including Jackson Pollock and M. C. Escher (the last very precisely painted). A man propelled one vehicle by walking in an immense gerbil-style wheel. Marchmallow peeps completely covered another vehicle, prompting speculation on how they kept bugs from eating them before the parade. A somewhat disturbing 'muscle car' was covered with sculpted muscle fibers, with a heart on the hood actually pumping red liquid 'blood'. Finely painted political statements covered another: "End Welfare? End CORPORATE Welfare! What we have is government of, by, and for corporations."

Our friends drove the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir, a car covered with electronic singing fish and lobsters all wired and reprogrammed to sing in unison. Another friend rode a bicycle whose front wheel was a real beer keg - with beer in it!

After the Art Car Parade was the Anything that Floats boat parade. We took just a few snapshots as we were leaving, though we missed most of that show.