Rose Parade Preview

Today I wen't with David and his parents to the Rose Parade float decorating event which is going on in well, several locations around Pasadena. We headed over to the Rose Bowl where we got a good look at a couple of the floats before they head out onto Colorado Blvd on Monday. The behind the scenes peek was nothing short of impressive. All of the decorations have to be natural materials hence the millions of roses and flowers that don the floats and cars. In addition to the floral findings, we saw fruit, bark and even potatoes (as cobblestones on the Cal-Poly float!) used as decor. Many of the solid color patches on the floats are actually tiny shreds of flower petals dusted over the surface. Hundreds of volunteers were sitting at folding tables snipping tips of flowers into color coded boxes.