First Two Floats!

Well, I've now been initiated first-hand into a part of the Tournament of Roses Parade experience! Moving south on Raymond Avenue so that they could be decorated were:

1.) The American Indian Festival float sponsored by Farmers Insurance
2.) The Bon Voyage float sponsored by the City of Glendale

The company decorating them, Phoenix Decorating Company, were the ones that were also doing the transporting with a City of Pasadena police escort, of course.

The linked newsletter shares the following information: Several of Pasadena’s neighbors are providing tours of the Southern California environs: the City of Glendale is bidding travelers
“Bon Voyage” as they depart the historic Bob Hope Airport ...... and The City of St. Louis
honors the pioneer spirit with a celebration of “The Lewis and Clark Expedition,” which traversed much of previously unexplored U.S. territory in the early 1800s. Although unexplored, the area they charted wasn’t undiscovered – having long been populated by indigenous natives. Farmers Insurance pays tribute to those natives with “The American
Indian Festival.”

I'm hoping to be able to fly Waverly out here on Friday, the 21st and then return back to Houston on a red-eye the morning of the 24th.