The Rose Parade and Cunard!!

Well I am very excited for this coming New Year! A whole new year for cruising, blogging, geeking out over ships, visiting the Beautiful and Ever Perfect…Queen Mary in Long Beach and also…The 2011 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade!!

Why am I so excited about a Parade?? You ask. Well for one, it’s the world famous Rose Parade! Secondly, I am from Pasadena, California and I love the Rose Parade and Pasadena, Thirdly…this year, for the first time ever The Great, The Powerful, The Amazing and Historical Cunard Line (….*geek drool…) is going to have a float in this, the greatest of all Parades!

Named “A Grand Celebration at Sea”, the float will be Cunards first ever foray into this Parade even though, interestingly enough, Cunard has had a connection to Southern California for decades. The float is designed to show different scenes and experiences that you could have on a Cunard ship like a Grand Ball, a grand staircase, a big band orchestra, a large floral graph of the Three, current, Cunard Queens, a Cunard funnel and other such er…um…..grandness. AHHHHHHH!!!! I LOVE CUNARD!!!!...sorry, I had a geek out moment there :D. (The picture below shows what the float will look like)

For those of you who might possibly not know what the Rose Parade is….first of all I would suggest you get out from under that rock you live beneath, because if you hadn’t heard of the Rose Parade, well…you must live under a rock. Secondly, the Rose Parade is a very large parade that we have here in Pasadena every year on New Years to celebrate the coming of the new year. Millions of people every year watch the Rose Parade all over the world. There are marching band, horses and of course the floats. The thing that is special about this parade over others is the floats, because in the Rose Parade every single visible inch of them has to be covered in flowers or some kind of plant material. As a result the floats are really quite beautiful and now with the addition of a Cunard float the parade will be incomprehensibly beautiful! ;)

I will try and get pictures from the parade route of the Parade and most importantly of the Cunard float. I will be sure to post those here so be sure to keep reading!!