The Making of a Rose Parade Float

We all watch the Rose Parade every year.  We hear the announcers talk about the floats and how many flowers are on it.  They tell us about seeds and leaves that are used to decorate them.  I hear all of that, but until you see it all happening you have no concept of all that it takes to truly make the beautiful floats.  It is quite a process, we spent the morning touring a couple of warehouses that are used to make the floats.

What a beautiful bouquet of roses!  I wonder how they are able to color them so that theyare half red and half white?

The Rose Parade President and his wife will be in this car.

Grandma and Grandpa Anderson

The woman in the blue hoodie is getting the head ready to put on this person.

Yound and old get involved in the decorating.

The head is in place.

He is attaching little red petals to this car.

There is so much going on in this warehouse. 

Rows and rows of flowers line the floor.

The detail on all of the floats is amazing.

This float has the tower part on a pulley system and once they take the float out of the building, they will raise the tops.

I will appreciate all the work that goes into this floats each year as I watch the Parade.  It amazes me all of the different "REAL" things they use, flowers, seeds, grasses, leaves, to create each and every float.

Here is a link to a story from our local paper about a couple of woman from the area who went to Pasadena to help build a float.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/north/american-fork/two-utah-county-women-lent-florist-talents-to-rose-parade/article_f3e89fd8-d0fd-56f7-97ee-d6679461e0c1.html

I am excited to watch the parade on Monday to see the completed floats.