Centennial Color Guard was chosen to march in the Fiesta Bowl parade, so we went downtown to watch the parade. The traffic wasn't too bad where we parked, and we didn't have to walk very far to get to the parade. We sat right where the parade began, which gave us a nice view of who and what was coming.
All willing Eagle Scouts were invited to march in the parade as well. When Erik got there, however, many of the volunteers had dropped out, and they needed extra people to help carry the banners. There was a Cub scout there that had come with his Eagle Scout brothers and dad, so Erik called us to see if Joseph wanted to come help in the parade too, which he did.
I got these pictures ahead of time, which was good since my camera batteries were being fickle, and would only snap pictures every now and then.
Christine is in the back of the picture, and is visible on the televised broadcast of the parade. They got a pretty good shot of her kicking up her leg.
We were pretty excited to see Darth Vader and a whole bunch of other Star Wars characters there. James yelled out "hello" to Bobo Fet, and Bobo turned and waved at him - James was pretty star struck by that. His other favorite part was seeing the race cars. Jalen Andrew liked watching small helium balloons float into the air after their owners accidentally let them go. He liked the marching bands too, and the horses, but he was mostly interested in watching the balloons float away. It was really fun to be there with the crowd, and to see all the fun things that came by, like these little tiny cars that some men were driving, and especially to see the people we love walk by us. Joseph had so much fun, that he's requesting to do it again next year.If you want to watch the parade go to
and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
(I can see Joseph and Erik in the very beginning because I know what I'm looking for, but it's hard to make them out. Christine is featured near the very end of the parade).
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How fun! I love the picture with Erik, Joseph, and James. What a cute picture- that's too cool with James and Bobo fet...I'd be stoked too :). That's neat Christine got to be in it too
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