We took off early on Tuesday to drive to Pasadena CA. It was an uneventful drive, thankfully, other than dealing with LA traffic. John discovered that if you just pick a lane, look straight ahead and don't worry about other cars passing you on both sides, that we will get where we want to go stress free! Now, you and I know that fact but this is something new for John. He didn't realize that it is okay for people to pass him!
The Escapee's RV club that we will be with for our Rose Parade experience are an early bunch. Early cocktail hour (4 PM), early dinner (5:30 PM) and early to bed (we were back in the RV by 7 PM). We also found out that the New Years Eve party will be based on the eastern time zone -- 3 hours early!!!! Not a bad idea since we have to be on the bus at 6 AM New Year's Day to attend the parade. Also, when they say to be on the bus by 2:45, everybody except us were there at 2:30!
Today we got to see some of the floats being decorated with flowers and organic substances such as seed, moss, lichen, corn husks, leaves, rice etc. This is quite an engineering feat as well as labor intensive. There were scores of volunteers for each float.
This afternoon we went to Equifest -- a horse show of performers who will be in the parade. Now John and I are not real horse fans but this was a lot of fun and very interesting. There were circus performers, Calvary soldiers, Mexican caballeros, Cowgirls Chics and many more.
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