It's Beginning to Look a Lot like...New Years!!!

[queenoftheskies]

Because they're putting flowers onto Tournament of Roses floats next door to where I work. They do it every year, though they're a little late getting started this year.

I've been able to see at least three--maybe four--floats inside the temporary tent/building they use. One is for Starbucks. I'm not sure who the others belong to. All were built by Fiesta Floats and moved in there to have the flowers and plant items put on.

And, believe me, it is like a ZOO over there. Like a carnival actually. They use our parking lot, because City of Hope (our landlord) says they can. And, they charge admission and people watch what's going on and eat various kinds of food and they have music and pony rides.

Until Friday. Then, they block the entire street while they take the floats up to Huntington Drive and up the road to Pasadena. That'll REALLY be a zoo then. Police come out to stop traffic and the floats parade up the street in all their newly flowered glory.

One of these years, I'm going to actually go see the parade. I've always wanted to, especially in the 20+ years I've lived in southern California, but I have yet to go. Maybe next year. :)

I could have actually written more tonight, but I hit 2,000 words exactly, which hardly ever happens (the exact word count, that is), so I decided to stop and do some other writing work.


Beginning of the End 2,000 words today

200,277 total words to date


Wow...I passed 200,000 words. Novel's still just on page 768, though. Maybe cause I'm using Times New Roman as my font?

Comments

[vincam.livejournal.com]

One of these years, I'm going to actually go see the parade.

The whole time I lived in Pasadena I never did. Though one year (1981) I did walk the parade route the night before. It was like a huge New Year's party, with all the people claiming seats for the next morning. Then I went home shortly after midnight and slept through the parade itself.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I've heard it can get really wild out there the night before. That, and COLD. Well, cold for southern California. I guess cold is relative, huh?

This year, we have RAIN...TONS of rain. Today, we're supposed to have thunderstorms, too.

I keep reminding myself that it has NEVER rained on the Rose Parade. This year, they're predicting rain for all week.

Will it? Or won't it? That's the question.

[replicantpris.livejournal.com]

Janice,
Wow. That actually sounds both really cool and like a pain in the ass. Not the parade, necesarily, but the whole parking in your lot, etc, etc.

I did perk up when you mentioned food. LOL. I've always been a food person, and I met a couple of friends who were more food people, and it sort of sparked me. The mention of 'carnival' made me go... mmmm... fried dough. (Mmm.. Fried dough. If they do have it, and you like it as much as I do, I hope you get some for yourself.)

Also, have you ever heard of Portland's Rose.. festival or something. Doen in Oregon. My friend has family from there and so when I went, it was during their Rose thang. They have a parade and all the floats are made completely of flowers, and they also put down roses down on their welcome center, and when it's done, and you look down on it, the different color roses make a picture. (We weren't there long enough to see what it was this year. LOL.)

Anyway, the parade you mentioned sounded sorta like that. (He, he.. In unrelated news, because of the rose festival our hotel had a huge-ass inflatable crab on top of it. Cause of the seafood restaurant downstairs.)

Hope you get to see the parade this year!

~Frenzy ;