This year all four of us went to the Hollywood Christmas Parade together (
last year it was just Beatrice and me). We also came better prepared, with warm clothes, blankets, camp chairs, hot chocolate, and snacks, plus a pizza we picked up across the street and ate outside while waiting for the parade to start.
I can't believe the children are so willing to sit on the sidewalk for more than two hours before the parade even started, then another two hours for the event itself, but they were both remarkably patient.
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| People setting up along Hollywood Boulevard |
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| Waiting for the parade to begin |
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| Buzz Aldrin's car |
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| It's just not the Hollywood Christmas Parade without the Scientology float. |
Beatrice loved the giant balloons, just like last year. Arthur's favorite part was the marching bands - he loves music, dancing, and pageantry of all kinds - and seeing parade Grand Marshall Buzz Aldrin. In fact, he spent several days leading up to the parade talking about seeing Buzz Aldrin, and though I was careful to set his expectations appropriately, I was a little worried he would be disappointed when he saw that Buzz Aldrin was just an old man in normal street clothes who didn't look that much like an astronaut. But in fact, Arthur was delighted by him all the same, and spent the rest of the parade asking when he'd be back (he posited that after his car drove past, Buzz went to go hang out backstage with Santa).
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| Exhausted on the subway back home |
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