Each year in June, Portland celebrates the beauty of their roses with lots of fun filled activities. It's called The Portland Rose Festival. There are parades, a fun center on the waterfront, the ships come in and dock on the waterfront and people can takes tours of them (Navy, Coast Guard etc..), there's an air show, among just a few things. One princess is chosen from each Portland high school and then a queen is selected...they are the Rose Festival Court.
There are 3 parades...the childrens Jr. Rose Parade, which Jon and I have both marched in with his middle school band (very fun!!)...there is the Starlight Parade, which is at night, with floats lit up, marching bands, a fun run with thousands of runners dressed up in silly clothes that precedes the parade, (which Jon marched in last year), and the Grand Floral Parade, which is on a very grand scale, with beautiful floats made up of flowers, marching bands, horses, clowns and the likes. This is the 2nd time Jon has marched in this one. It seems to be a curse at the parades...it seems to rain on alot of them!! Actually the weather this year was beautiful for the first 2 parades, but the culminating parade was today...and of course it rained...again...and it was very cold....again! Oh well, it's all fun and we went to cheer on our boy.
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Sounds like fun!! Coats in June!?! And I thought that the weather here was chilly!! I guess not compared to there!!!
How fun to get to go to these parades!! I'm so glad you blogged about it! You and that old retired guy look like you're having a ball! Well, we're very HOT here...it has been hot, rainy, and HUMID! No parades for US...just swimmin' and relaxin'..... especially for us ones who've grad-e-a-ted our young 'uns.
WOW--I can't believe it's cold in JUNE!!!! It got up to about 100 here I think today! But it looks like a lot of fun!
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