Sunday, January 18, 2009

We're Back!

We have been so blessed this past month to have lots of time to rest and visit new places. After I took a few personal days off around Christmas, David and I left for Pasadena on December 29th on the trip that I won at work. We went to help with the building of the Donate Life Float for the Rose Parade. It was such a great experience to see the entire production and meet all the families that had given so much to others through organ donation.





Learning how to properly cut and prepare flowers to be place on the float:


Float in progress:


Our Group at the Stars of Life Gala
(don't we all look dressed for a funeral in our black outfits, ha!)


The night before the parade...people sleep on the streets and all the stores are boarded up. Quite the experience!





The Finished Product:


The float was named Stars of Life. It honored those individuals and families that chose to donate in the midst of unthinkable tragedy.

We even found an In-N-Out while we were there...yum!




After the parade we went to the Rose Bowl. David and I both love football so it wasn't hard to scrounge up the funds and justify why we should get tickets. We decided to be Penn State fans (David has always liked Joe Paterno)and then ended up sitting in a sea of people cheering for USC. We were lucky we made it out alive.







We came back to Colorado for 4 short days before we were off to Flordia to embark on our Caribbean Cruise! I will post pictures of that vacation soon...I have to go finish laundry.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, lucky you! A Caribbean cruise sounds so good right now...

The Stewart Family said...

Ali Farmer I missed you way to much for you to be gone that long! LOL! It looks like so much fun. I could not be prouder of you, friend, for creating the inspiration to the float. You are going to do great things!

Anonymous said...

so glad you had a fun time, sure thought you would have come back a chocolate girl :)

Joanna said...

I am so jealous of your in n out. :)

Sherry said...

i found you on heathers blog so many thing in common chi always, 11year the 31st of August, white doggie, the eye of my late husband were donated. scorpio, will return to see what else just had to say Hi. Sherry

 
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