Adelaide Credit Union Christmas Pageant 2011 - Part 2

Finally I have made it back to blog the rest of the photos from the Christmas Pageant.....well not all of the photos as there were approximately 100 floats and bands etc but a few more of our favourite ones at least lol.  The Adelaide Christmas Pageant began in 1933 and is an annual event, I hope will never die.  I believe in these times when there is so little joy in people's faces, with everyone suffering from financial stress, things like this are truly needed.  Something that families can go to which costs nothing but a parent's time (and patience lol) that lights up children's eyes and brings to life the magic of childhood.

Click on the photos to enlarge them :-)

Nellie the Elephant is one of the oldest floats dating back to 1950

Nipper and Nimble get taken to the Magic Cave to give rides to children when they go there to visit Santa

And the man all the kids are waiting for arrives last

Santa was welcomed with a very warm day in Adelaide

Tomorrow we are off to the local Christmas Pageant (done on a much much smaller scale lol) as my Mr11 is in it with the rest of his Karate Group.  Temperature today is meant to be a scorcher 37 degrees,,,,the weather man says tomorrow will be a much nicer 23 degrees with rain,,,,,I hope he is right!!!!  I would much rather the kids get wet than get heat stroke!

Adelaide Credit Union Christmas Pageant 2011

I know this is a bit late,,,,,have been having internet problems all week ggrrrrrrrr!!

Last Saturday was the annual Christmas Pageant through the streets of Adelaide.  Every year since I have had children of my own, I have made the trip into Adelaide, bright and early on Saturday morning to take up our position along the blue honour line which curls its way through the streets of Adelaide.  This year though, was the first year since my eldest was just a baby that I have only had one child to take :(.  This year my eldest two refused to join us and Mr11 and Mr9 had to make the choice between spending Friday night with their Dad (this was the only night this week that they could have their sleepover at his house) or stay with us and get up at the crack of dawn to head into town.  Mr11 chose to go to Dad's while Mr9 chose to come to the pageant (I was secretly really happy with his choice :-)   ).  Miss12 and our other Mr11 were both at their Mum's house this weekend so we didn't have them either.

So we set our alarms for 6am and made it out the door at 6.55.  We arrived in the city  and parked our car at about 7.30 and then trudged up King William Street to find ourselves a spot.  We were amazed at how busy it was.  Normally we get there at about 8.30 and haven't had too much problem in finding a spot but this year we actually had to squeeze ourselves into a gap,,,,,lucky we did only have 1 child with us!!!!  This year was forecast to be about 30 degrees so it was quite warm sitting in the sun.  I love the traditional drawing on the streets with chalk that goes on by many of the kids who go.  We always take a bucket of chalk with us so the kids can decorate their patch of road and we always take some bubble mix so they can blow bubbles too.

Here are some photos of the day,,,,,,I'm getting into Christmas mode,,,this weekend the tree goes up and during the week next week we hang our outside Christmas lights,,,,yippeee!!

Mr9's patch of road

Mr9 with Hubby taking time out to read the paper

The leading float

I always call this guy Bobo,,,not sure what his real name is lol

I wish I got a close up of this float, the penguins all glide around their little snow track, pretty awesome

Puss in Boots

In the big trash can is a cat that pops up

Cinderella

Rapunzel

I will post some more photos tomorrow