After Christmas, New Year's eve rolled round quickly and we were off to the Raynor's house for a Games night with our Bible study group. Games "stations" were laid out all over the house, catering to all the age groups.
In the end it was the antics of the grown-ups, playing a version of Charades with a timer, that had everyone rolling around laughing!
No Christa...we still don't get it!
It's a triangle...it's a pyramid....it's ???
Vicky , Lynette, Ahlisa
Fuel to keep Matt and Nelly going.
That was the weasel and it went POP!
Midnight at last! Happy 2010!
Up at 5 the next morning and off to Pasadena for the annual Rose Parade. What a fantastic spectacle! We arrived at 6 am to see all the floats up close before the parade began at 8am.
Everything you see on the floats are organic or plantmaterial - flowers, foliage, grasses, bark, beans , soil. It was absolutely astounding to see how creative the designers and floatbuilders were. I hate to say it, but it might even be better than the Chelsea Flower Show's indoor displays.
Running and dancing alongside the many many floats were also groups of dressed-up people, bands and display teams representing anything and everything from countries to Boy Scouts to cultural groups to big companies. The parade ended at the Rose Bowl - a big stadium- where an important football fixture is played every New Year's Day.
Go Churchill!
During the parade this float, which was HUGE, let off fireworks from the rigging.
I kid you not - that Indian chief looked very scary, he really made my skin crawl and count my blessings that it was just pretend. Imagine seeing him in full charge , screaming a war cry...
This is the beautiful old car that the mayor of LA and the parade marshall gets to ride in. This year the marshall was the pilot of the plane that landed on the Hudson River.
These girls on rollerskates all looked like porcelain dolls , so sweet from the front...
...and sunny from behind
In the end it was the antics of the grown-ups, playing a version of Charades with a timer, that had everyone rolling around laughing!
No Christa...we still don't get it!
It's a triangle...it's a pyramid....it's ???
Vicky , Lynette, Ahlisa
Fuel to keep Matt and Nelly going.
That was the weasel and it went POP!
Midnight at last! Happy 2010!
Up at 5 the next morning and off to Pasadena for the annual Rose Parade. What a fantastic spectacle! We arrived at 6 am to see all the floats up close before the parade began at 8am.
Everything you see on the floats are organic or plantmaterial - flowers, foliage, grasses, bark, beans , soil. It was absolutely astounding to see how creative the designers and floatbuilders were. I hate to say it, but it might even be better than the Chelsea Flower Show's indoor displays.
Running and dancing alongside the many many floats were also groups of dressed-up people, bands and display teams representing anything and everything from countries to Boy Scouts to cultural groups to big companies. The parade ended at the Rose Bowl - a big stadium- where an important football fixture is played every New Year's Day.
Go Churchill!
During the parade this float, which was HUGE, let off fireworks from the rigging.
I kid you not - that Indian chief looked very scary, he really made my skin crawl and count my blessings that it was just pretend. Imagine seeing him in full charge , screaming a war cry...
This is the beautiful old car that the mayor of LA and the parade marshall gets to ride in. This year the marshall was the pilot of the plane that landed on the Hudson River.
These girls on rollerskates all looked like porcelain dolls , so sweet from the front...
...and sunny from behind
