the preparations for the rose bowl parade are pretty incredible. bleachers line the streets, there is an abundance of security and white suitors and there are lots and lots o' people....
since we didn't know if we'd ever come back, or waht exactly went on, we bought some seats in the stands and a parking pass. i'm glad we did. the hotel staff suggested we leave at 5:00 a in order to get thru traffic, navigate around closed streets and find our seats. here we are, ready to go!
(beezer is so happy to have donuts every day this week!)
the parade was pretty cool... but i wo'nt bore you with pictures since i've sure you've watched it on tv. it was just really amazing of how much work goes into these floats for a "drive by." afterwards the floats all are driven down to a park where they can be viewed by the public for 2 days. what happens to the floats when it's all said and done? the floats are torn apart. apparently there is an episode of this on dirty jobs, and i was going to get a link to it on youtube for you, but i cna't seem to find it. after the parade we all went over to the nbc stand and got a flower from their beautiful bouquets. i'm still wondering how we're going to get these in home in one piece.
here is what downtown pasadena on colorado street looks like after the parade has passed. it's a giant mix of people being lost, going to the game, not knowing what to do next....
we thought while we were down in cali we better go see a little hollywood. we drove down, parked, walked the main drag amongst a bajillion foreigners who were willing to pay ridiculous prices for crap, saw the kodak theater, went to the worst wax museum in the world, got our hollywood hill picture and left. yes, it was that exciting.
(this picture is for all the people in the ortho dept at bmc....since it seems we talk a lot about ninja turtles)
we are so exhausted. came back from eating and laid around for 4 hours doing absolutely nothing. i think we're all excited to get back tomorrow! this was a really great experience though and i would definitely recommend it to anyone.
since we didn't know if we'd ever come back, or waht exactly went on, we bought some seats in the stands and a parking pass. i'm glad we did. the hotel staff suggested we leave at 5:00 a in order to get thru traffic, navigate around closed streets and find our seats. here we are, ready to go!
(beezer is so happy to have donuts every day this week!)
the parade was pretty cool... but i wo'nt bore you with pictures since i've sure you've watched it on tv. it was just really amazing of how much work goes into these floats for a "drive by." afterwards the floats all are driven down to a park where they can be viewed by the public for 2 days. what happens to the floats when it's all said and done? the floats are torn apart. apparently there is an episode of this on dirty jobs, and i was going to get a link to it on youtube for you, but i cna't seem to find it. after the parade we all went over to the nbc stand and got a flower from their beautiful bouquets. i'm still wondering how we're going to get these in home in one piece.
here is what downtown pasadena on colorado street looks like after the parade has passed. it's a giant mix of people being lost, going to the game, not knowing what to do next....
we thought while we were down in cali we better go see a little hollywood. we drove down, parked, walked the main drag amongst a bajillion foreigners who were willing to pay ridiculous prices for crap, saw the kodak theater, went to the worst wax museum in the world, got our hollywood hill picture and left. yes, it was that exciting.
(this picture is for all the people in the ortho dept at bmc....since it seems we talk a lot about ninja turtles)
we are so exhausted. came back from eating and laid around for 4 hours doing absolutely nothing. i think we're all excited to get back tomorrow! this was a really great experience though and i would definitely recommend it to anyone.
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