once in 1976 when i was 6 and again in 2002(well really jan 2003).
i remember as a little girl driving around pasedena and seeing all the people camped out the night before. i also remembered the smell of all the flowers.
we got to go back in 2002. we had seats right under all the news station (right across from the brown building, just when the floats make the big turn). it was even more amazing. television does not do the floats justice. it is amazing. just amazing. i watched the sun rise in pasedena and the sun set on the beach that year.
Seeing the parade is on my list of things to do before I croak. I understand, like what Janice said, that the smell of the flowers, etc is just divine.
Gentilly ... 42 years is a long time to wait .... a Northeast Texas woman can hope.
My love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain.
OttoCal wrote:My mom went one year, they had those grandstand seats and said they were farther away than they thought- practically needed binoculars.
Those storm troopers were something else. Made me think of parrotheads!!!!!!
Could you just imagine a Parrot Head Marching Band???
What could be songs that would work well with a full marching band?
FINS!!!
So let's see... all we need is for Margaritaville to decide to do a float, Jimmy Buffett to put out a call for volunteer PHs to come be in the parade, and a great marching band for him to fly out there to play and we're in business!! How much fun would that be???
OttoCal wrote:My mom went one year, they had those grandstand seats and said they were farther away than they thought- practically needed binoculars.
Those storm troopers were something else. Made me think of parrotheads!!!!!!
Could you just imagine a Parrot Head Marching Band???
What could be songs that would work well with a full marching band?
FINS!!!
So let's see... all we need is for Margaritaville to decide to do a float, Jimmy Buffett to put out a call for volunteer PHs to come be in the parade, and a great marching band for him to fly out there to play and we're in business!! How much fun would that be???
Wow! What a great idea. That would be the mostest fun in the world!
Gentilly ... 42 years is a long time to wait .... a Northeast Texas woman can hope.
My love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain.
OttoCal wrote:My mom went one year, they had those grandstand seats and said they were farther away than they thought- practically needed binoculars.
Those storm troopers were something else. Made me think of parrotheads!!!!!!
Could you just imagine a Parrot Head Marching Band???
What could be songs that would work well with a full marching band?
FINS!!!
So let's see... all we need is for Margaritaville to decide to do a float, Jimmy Buffett to put out a call for volunteer PHs to come be in the parade, and a great marching band for him to fly out there to play and we're in business!! How much fun would that be???
That would be soooooooooooooo COOL!!!!!!!!!
"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats." Mark Twain
well... that's a wrap for another New Year's Day Rose Parade
...and I would be there in a FLASH to put together a PH float!!
That would be the COOLEST way to spend the holiday week, building up a float.
They have to dress them with ALL their flowers in just a couple days,
just to keep 'em at their freshest.
The crowd reaction would be the BEST, too, because a PH float would be having the MOST FUN!!!
$#@&...only Vegas again?? Padres ...gotta start believin'!Bring on '14 Spring Training!
I have been to the parade 3 times, and the game 4 times largely due to having relatives in Pasadena (though I did go on the university tour with Northwestern).
It really is something you ought to do-tv just does not it justice!
Go a few days early because most of the floats are available to be seen as they are being worked on, and even if you think you understand the concept of putting the flowers on one at a time, seeing that up close is amazing! There are several large field houses where you can go watch, or a couple of nearby towns do their own, and you can go observe there as well.
And the smell of those flowers is amazing-you can even smell them up in the grandstands as the parade passes by.
And, afterwards, the floats are on display in the parking lot of Pasadena High School so you can go see them afterwards as well.
You can camp out for a couple of days to get a spot on the street (and people bring out old overstuffed chairs and sofas and abandon them afterwards) or you can buy seats in the grandstand. And the best location is where the cameras all are-at the corner of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevards where the parade turns--it is near the beginning of the parade so the pacing is good, everything is operating correctly, and they "do stuff" for the cameras.
Finally-make your plans early (especially hotel, and tickets as they sell fast).
"I finally know what Michael Jordan was talking about when he said he was 'in the zone'"
Jimmy Buffett, 9/4/05, Wrigley Field
Lightning Bolt wrote:I keep saying each year that I'm going to attend this great parade,
yet somehow, I manage to end up looking at it on TV, as I am RIGHT NOW
Anyone here been to this Pasadena traditional classic??
I'm looking at a "band" of marching Star Wars stormtroopers right now!
There are SO MANY great marching bands, fine horses,
I've got to go back to the procrastination thread....
"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats." Mark Twain
Wish someday I could see it in person one day.
