Watching the Rose Bowl Set Up From our Balcony

This is so cool! We are in our new condo in Pasadena, sitting in our living room watching people walk up and down, setting up the floats for the Rose Parade in the morning. We are enjoying New Years Eve in an empty apartment, sitting on little chairs we found outside, preparing our air mattress to sleep on for the next few nights before our furniture arrives, all the while, so excited about seeing the parade. All my life, I have dreamed of coming to the parade, never imagining I would be living in the town where you can actually see it from my front living room. This has been the most unusual Christmas Season, and New Years Eve. We arrived yesterday from Texas to begin our new adventure here in California. We ate Thai food tonight for the first time, (actually because it was the only thing we could find this late at night that didn’t require a rsvp) but it was delicious. So this made us think that this will be the year to get out of our comfort zone. Try new dishes, experience things that we had always thought about. As I write this, the very first float of the parade is passing rt in front of our house. This is so exciting, I have tears in my eyes thinking of all the beautiful floats, flowers and bands that will be marching right here in front of us. What an exceptional NY Eve. Happy New Years to each of you as we are headed downstairs to get in the hustle bustle of the parade set up. Next year, I will be baking and handing out goodies to the float drivers. This is going to be a great 2011, I can already tell…..