For a guy that supposedly lives at the North Pole, I HATE cold weather. I frequently tell clients that I am a South Pole Santa. So it seems perfectly fitting that 2 of the 3 parades I did this year were in sub freezing weather.
The 3 parades I am involved in are Thomasville, Greensboro and Lilesville. Lilesville?? Where the heck is Lilesville? I'll get to that.
The first parade in the Piedmont is always Thomasville. The Thomasville Parade is sponsored by the Fairgrove Lions Club and is the Saturday before Thanksgiving. It stretches for about 3 miles, has 150 or so entries. This year's parade saw warm weather and a huge crowd.
Next, for me, is the Greensboro Holiday Parade held the first Saturday in December. This year for the first time ever, it snowed for the parade. The News and Record holds a coloring contest each year and the winning kids get to ride on Santa's float. We were upstairs at the Jaycee office when it started to snow. The kids riding with me were excited, the adults walking with the float less so. The Jaycees tell me that this year's parade drew a record crowd. I'm sure they were right but when it started to snow the record crowd started to leave. By the time my float came by most of the crowd was gone. The kids and I had a great time anyway.
Now on to Lilesville. Lilesville is about 8 miles west of Rockingham off Hwy 74 and theirs is the only parade I'm in that is a Night Parade.The small town of several hundred usually draws about 4000 for the parade. That's usually! This year the temp was at 26 with a windchill of 12 when we started. I was very bundled up so all that was cold was my face. I can tell you at a 12 degree windchill, no rouge is needed to obtain rosy cheeks.
All was going as usual except there were no people. None. I really didn't get what was going on until about half way through. It was then that I realized that everyone was sitting in their cars watching the procession. Every now and then a little arm or head would pop out of a window only to be quickly withdrawn.
It was like I had been transported into the movie Cars and this was the Radiator Springs Christmas Parade. While I did not see Lightening McQueen, I did see a fairly good representation of Tow Mater. If I'm lyin' I'm diein'.
All was going as usual except there were no people. None. I really didn't get what was going on until about half way through. It was then that I realized that everyone was sitting in their cars watching the procession. Every now and then a little arm or head would pop out of a window only to be quickly withdrawn.
It was like I had been transported into the movie Cars and this was the Radiator Springs Christmas Parade. While I did not see Lightening McQueen, I did see a fairly good representation of Tow Mater. If I'm lyin' I'm diein'.
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