It's Day #2 of 2013 and I'm already doing a new thing!
My friend Diana and I decided to go see the 2013 Tournament of Roses Parade Floats in Pasadena today because a) we've never done it before and b) we've both got a lot of time on our hands ;)
It was both amazing and exhausting! There were a LOT of floats in that parade yesterday -- it took us two and a half hours to see them all. And there were a lot of people trying to get up-close-and-personal with them, taking photos, walking in front of other people's photos, etc. But seeing them up close was incredible! The detail is just crazy. And it was super fun to see some of the natural materials they used to decorate the floats...
Artichoke hearts covering the foot of a giant teddy bear... (Shriner's Hospital Float)
Hearts made of cranberries... (Odd Fellows & Rebekahs float "Elevated Adventure")
Granny Smith apples and purple cabbages adding color to The Cat In The Hat's Garden... (Kaiser Permanente Float "Oh, The Healthy Things You Can Do")
Entire fruits and vegetables decorating a mixer and whole garlics strung together as a rope... (Trader Joe's Float "Recipe for Adventure!")
And watermelon rinds carved into little turtle shells (lower right) (City of Burbank's float "Deep Sea Adventures")
I took more than 300 photos and there are 90ish of them on Facebook, so if you really love flowers and are my Facebook friend go check out a ton of gorgeous photos there.
But for those that don't have that kind of time, here are my personal Top 10 Favorite Floats I saw today, in no particular order. Not surprisingly, they are all either heavily focused on animals, food, houses, gardens or have lots of purple on them. All that was missing was a hockey float :)
But for those that don't have that kind of time, here are my personal Top 10 Favorite Floats I saw today, in no particular order. Not surprisingly, they are all either heavily focused on animals, food, houses, gardens or have lots of purple on them. All that was missing was a hockey float :)
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| Odd Fellows & Rebekahs "Elevated Adventure" |
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| Kaiser Permanente's "Oh, the Healthy Things You Can Do" |
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| The Nurses' Float "A Healing Place" (Notice the trendy owls ;) |
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| Beverly Hills Pet Care's "Follow the Stars... Adopt a Pet" |
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| Cal Poly's "Tuxedo Air" |
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| La Canada Flintridge's "Dino-Soar" |
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| Downey's "Dew Drop By" |
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| Burbank's "Deep Sea Adventures" |
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| HGTV's "All Roads Lead Home" |
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| Trader Joe's "Recipe for Adventure!" |
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