December Weekend

This saturday we went to the Community Center to volunteer on the City's Float for the New Years Day Rose Parade. Even though our hands were sore from cutting for 2 hours, we had a fun time and it was good to teach the kids some community service. ( Heidi was the best worker, and although the volunteers were sopposed to be 6 yrs old, we smuggled her in.)The float is going to be very cool. It has a swimming pool in the middle of it that the city dive team will dive into. I am uncomfortable driving my car having a cup with the lid off, and I have professional, first hand experience filling a pick-up truck bed with water and driving it around town. (Good times!) Lets just say that there wasn't any water in it when we got home. So I don't know how a swimming pool on wheels will work, hopefully there are not too many rough stop and go's.

After working on the Rose Float we went to Riverside to the historic Mission Inn to see the Festival of Lights. There was a line with about 300 people in it just to get through the Hotel. Using our "Anti-Cattle-Driving Maneuvers" we managed to avoid the line. Through a mixture of stealth, charm, persistence and luck we managed to convince an employee that our time would be best spent poolside away from the crowd and we got access to the pool,, where we were the only ones and spent our time enjoying the lights from the chaise lounges.