I don’t have much to say about the Rose Parade. It’s a made for TV event. It’s not nearly so glamorous up close. The fun part was being part of the scene.
We got on a tour bus in Lancaster way before sunup. I woke up on the bus just as we were about to exit the freeway in Pasadena and saw a glorious pink sunrise with monkey shinny up trees in black silhouette. (That’s what we used to call the palm trees in LA when I was a kid.)
The bus parked about a block from our reserved bench seats. It was fun being part of the crowd. We would have been doing good to get up to 5 mph. 
It was great letting someone else do the driving!
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We were surrounded by red. People from Ohio. They occupied their time by doing cheers from one side of the street to the other.
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Everytime any horses were in the parade, which was often, they were followed by a pooper scooper team. The ohio people cheered the loudest whenever a scooper team went by. Often the scoopers would do a little dance of some sort for the cheering crowd. It was great.
A photogenic dog.
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It was quite a scene!
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I tried my best to get us on tv but to no avail.
We were way up close
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On the way home we stopped and took photos of this Lutheren Church in Mojave. It has cool stained glass windows.
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