I\’ve been obsessed with the winter skies lately. Proof positive.
Winter Skies
Month: January 2015
Rose Bowl Floats
On Saturday we went to see the Rose Bowl Floats up close and personal. And they were impressive!
The floats are at the end of the parade route in Pasadena and we were lucky to have our first warm day in a while.
The Bachelor Float won for the best use of roses. Ha Ha! I think I heard they used 25,000 roses!
You probably know that all of the color/design on the floats are natural ingredients. You really can\’t appreciate the intricacy of it until you see it up close. Here\’s the Burbank float.
I took an up close picture of the bananas. Imagine having to place each one of those lentils.
A look towards the mountains and the winning float.
This one was so simple but one of my favorites.
Love the use of lemon and lime slices for the scales on the fish!
Loved this shock of pink! This was the Zappos float. The inside of the mouth of the hippo is completely covered in pink flowers. Wow!!
It was pretty awesome seeing all the floats up close. Something I\’m glad that we did and won\’t need to do again for 5 more years 🙂
Trail Ride
We started our year off right with a bike trail ride.
Now that Quinn is really proficient at riding his bike we are doing more family outings and finding that our temporary bike rack wasn\’t cutting it. So we got this one that hitches securely to our car and we don\’t have to worry about bikes falling off on the 101.
We had walked this trail (or a short part of it) on Thanksgiving Day with Mae and it was pretty flat with lots of bikers. So we thought this would be a good place for Quinn to have his first trail ride. It\’s 4 miles up and back with very little elevation.
We were on our way back and Quinn was just hooting and hollering he was having so much fun! It was New Year\’s Day so lots of people out and about and getting a good laugh as Quinn went by. Hard not to appreciate a boy having a great time.
What a fun adventure with this boy!
The White House 