It's a parade!
 

Have you ever been in a parade?

I have a dim memory of once being in a parade (don't remember what parade) as a little girl, but that's all.

Have you ever watched a really big parade? Like, the Rose Bowl, or Macy's Thanksgiving parade?

I haven't. Not even a Disney Parade. But then again, I don't like crowds!

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Went to the Thanksgiving Parade in Philly, once, it was worth seeing, once.
Saw the Easter Parade in New York, but that's a different animal.
Most of the ballons in the New York Parade, will be in the Springfield, Massachusetts Parade, the next day.

I love local hometown parades. Everybody gets out and lines the street, watches the school band, scout troops, fire trucks, antique tractors, those little shriners cars sometimes, etc. And here we're just as likely to see horses and goats. A local vet has his customers walk their dogs in the parade. Here where I live, anybody can walk in the parade if they want to, you just have to show up at the designated time and place. It's so much fun.

We do it for Memorial Day and the annual Christmas festival, which was last weekend.

So yeah, I've walked in bunches of them, with the Girl Scouts, but now I just get to watch.

Went to the Detroit TXG parade with weeks-old Thor in tow, watched a few smaller small town christmas ones and 4th July and walked in one Ann Arbor 4th July parade :lol: (think about it....)

I hate a parade.

I'm all paraded out, now, but we put the Detrot one on the TV this morning and the kids enjoyed watching.

when I lived in Park City, UT, they had a great Fourth of July hometown parade, with fire trucks and horses, saloon gals, and veterans marching. Very well organized, old timey, fun.

oh I forgot ...we have a neighborhood bike/firetruck parade every Memorial Saturday when we open the pool...

I was in Marching Band in high school, so I've marched in my fair share of parades. Also, being a huge Disney nut, we've been to a bunch of them during our visits to Disney World. My favorite is the Spectromagic parade at Magic Kingdom - it's done at night and all of the floats are lit up with thousands of small twinkly lights. It's crowded, but we stake out our seats a while in advance and people watch, that way we get a really good view and get to people watch too!

Kellie

If it's interesting enough I'll watch, but not for long, but that's just me. I think the majority of people who really love it are the older folks and the kids. I'm more for going to a live game and watching people compete against each other.

Worked on Rose Parade floats for a number of years, been to the Rose Parade too many times to count (the best was when my mom's friend had a second story office right on Colorado Blvd - stay inside, warm with breakfast and a bathroom, and eye level with the floats while avoiding the crowds.)

Got to march in down Main Street of Disneyland w/ high school marching band. Pretty stressful but memorable.

Love hometown parades the best.

Ha! me too