The Rose Festival is a very big deal around these parts. The main event is the Grand Floral Parade, but there is actually more than one parade (Starlight Parade and the Junior Parade) during the week or two of events leading up to the main parade. There’s also a big carnival, Fleet Week, a 5K race and much, much more. For reasons I can’t recall (probably our baseball schedule), this is the first year we have made it to any of the events.
We didn’t make it downtown for the parade, but they had all of the floats on display. They are made out of flowers, but I did see some rice on one of the floats. Maybe the rule is that all of the materials have to be plant-based?
I don’t know who the cute baby is or the woman who’s holding him. 🙂
The Dragon Boat races are what really drew us to the festivities. There were races going all day long. I think this was probably our favorite part of the whole day.
We got to go on this boat…
We took a break from walking around to enjoy a nice lunch outside. This was our view…it was such a gorgeous day.
A few more boats…
and then a carnival game and it was time to go home.
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