[It's Tuesday evening, I'm comfortably ensconced on my couch & watching junk tv while I write this. Life is good!]
I think I mentioned in the previous post that being #50 and 51 put us at the front of the line. That was nice because we got to watch cars 1-50 pass us by on their way out. It was so fun! Parades are different for participants than for spectators: when you're in a parade, all you ever see are the people directly in front of and behind you. So it was great to be spectators and wave to the first 50 cars as they headed out.
At the end of the route we saw Bryan and his santa car pulled over on the shoulder. Later Georg told me that Bryan had said he was going to pull over as soon as he could and watch the rest of the parade. I wish we had done that! We didn't get a good look at some of the cars that got there late, like the Trojan Horse and Scrap Daddy's latest invention (some kind of walking machine). Especially since we didn't park on Allen Parkway this time, the parade just sort of broke up at the end. Next time we'll definitely pull over and watch the rest of the cars.
After the parade the four of us went to the after party location, which hadn't really set up yet, and had a picnic lunch Peggy and Chris had brought. With champagne! It looked like it would have been fun to stay at the after party, but Peggy and Chris needed to get going and Georg and I needed a little time to rest before the illuminated cruise.
I already wrote about the illuminated cruise, so I'll just add that Georg and I talked about the lighting issues on the drive back and we decided that the car would look just fine with only 2 strands: one on the roof and one on the front of the hood. Or maybe we could get another inverter and run another 2 strands off the charger. Either way, next time we'll know what to expect and we won't get so stressed out. On the bright side, the glow sticks I taped to the wheels lasted all night!
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