Well, the parade is over. The borrowed battery had plenty of juice and the tires didn’t pop. Hallelujah.
This year it was substantially less work for me for two reasons. First, we didn’t disassemble the float and put it inside to ‘advertise’ for families to join us. That meant that it did not have to be taken apart, moved outside and then reassembled. In fact, I didn’t know that the place where we normally store our float needed the floats taken out a while ago. A co-worker and her husband have had it out on their farm for quite a while. They got nearly everything ready to go (including repairing a wheel) and got it to the CDC on Friday. (That’s reason two. God bless them.)
So my day was pretty much replacing light bulbs with LEDs so they’d suck less power, getting the star back up on top and getting costumes and props loaded up. We got the float to the parade site, and I was only expecting the nine kids that signed up to walk with us, but we had at least twice that many show up. One of the families brought three cousins along and asked if they could walk. Of course!
The weather was nice – cold, but not freezing cold. The afternoon had been so nice I was working in a t-shirt. As always, though, I need to fix the handles on that thing so it’s easier to push.
Happy Advent!
Lauren's dad says
Beautiful, again!
Deborah says
It looked fantastic!