Tuesday, January 1, 2008

The Rose Parade

On New Year's Eve, L drove up to Pasadena with her parents to see the famous Rose Parade. A had already driven up with the Marine Band the day before, in order to prepare for marching in the 5 & 1/2 mile parade. Seeing the parade in person was a quite exciting, and additionally, another memorable event from that day was getting to see A's face on the TV footage of the parade replay later that day. Check back soon for the video footage of A in Marine Band!

That night before the parade, we looked at the floats up close, and these floats are way more impressive than what is shown on TV.L and her dad sitting in a prime spot on the street corner right where the parade route begins.
Here's a nice smile from A while the Marine Band waits for the parade to start.
Right before the band stepped off onto the parade route, L was able to get a picture with the Marines in the background.
NOTE: Just to clear things up, this parade is called the "Rose Parade" or the "Tournament of Roses Parade," not the "Rose BOWL Parade." The Rose Parade existed long before there was a Rose Bowl Game.

4 comments:

Monica Gee said...

So fun to see these pics! We need to catch up soon - I miss you seester! And Alex too!

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Monica Gee said...

That isn't a stupid question! :-) I only know what the Didache is because I took a class in college where I had to translate it! It is an early Christian writing that outlined some basics of Christian living. It isn't inspired, but it does reflect what the early church was thinking about. It is pronounced did-a-kay which might help ring a bell. Dr. Varner wrote a book on it, so he was pretty excited about it while I had him as a prof. :-) It's good stuff!