After wonderful Christmas holidays with our Los Angeles family, we hugged sad goodbyes on New Year’s Eve morning and set off on the long RV drive home. Since the Tournament of Roses parade would be the following day in Pasadena, California, we decided to make a stop to see the floats being constructed. We had never seen the parade in person, but we, like most of the world, faithfully watched it on TV every New Year’s Day.
Inside the large barn-looking buildings were hundreds of volunteers frantically putting finishing touches on the floats. It was incredible to watch the intricate details that untrained people could achieve using only fresh natural flowers, seeds and greenery. The floats were enormous, and millions of flowers had to be flown in from all over the world to achieve the beautiful designs, which would perish within a week.
