As I write this dozens of volunteers are busily putting flowers on this year’s South Pasadena float for the Tournament of Roses parade on Friday morning. On the parade route and afterwards the floats are gorgeous to see and smell heavenly, but while they’re being assembled the scene is chaotic.
Boxes and tubs of flowers are stacked here and there. People are coming and going–some helping decorate the float, some just watching and others, like me, taking pictures.
Driving a few miles to join the 2016 Rose Parade
Late on Thursday, the driver will slowly back the float out of the huge tent it has been in and then drive up to join the line of Rose Parade floats, engines idly, along Orange Grove Avenue. This happens a little after midnight, January 1, 2016 and the sounds of those engines reaches for almost a mile around the area.
Here is what the float is supposed to look like when it is done. Below are photos of how it looks two days before it rolls out of the tent and onto the street.
CONGRATULATIONS! On January 1st. 2016 the City of South Pasadena’s float won the National Award in the Rose Parade!