The Rose Bowl Parade, Now With Eli 3.5
We watched the Rose Bowl Parade in high-definition on New Year's Day.
Clearly, I'm not a parade guy. You know that. But I am a high-definition guy, and Eli liked the Macy's Day parade with all the giant balloons, so I figured we would both enjoy it.
"MICKEY MOUSE!" Mr. Mouse was being awarded a Fields Medal or something, and his giant grill was filling up the screen. "Daddy! Daddy, is that the REAL Mickey Mouse?"
"Well, there is no real Mickey Mouse," I said. "It's a character, and a man dresses in a costume to look like the cartoon character."
"Mommy! Look! It's the REAL Mickey Mouse!" Cognitive dissonance, 3.5 style.
Eli 3.5 watched the floats roll by, and then he decided that he wanted to put on his Halloween costume (Captain Feathersword, of Wiggles' fame). He seemed to think that wearing the costume made him a float, and he walked around for several minutes, complete with fully-authentic parade wave.
Then he started riding around on his tricycle, and I saw some tulips that Gloria was about to get rid of, and after about five minutes, his tricycle was a float. He demanded an introduction (courtesy of the microphone on his fire truck), and it went like this: "Now, the Special Merit award winner, the float Aggli, driven by Eli-Harris Trent!" After the introduction, he came riding out, did a loop around the living room, then stopped at the base of the stairs to run up to the landing and give Gloria a hug.
She was in the luxury box, obviously. Picture below.
Rest assured that the devil eyes are not a fiction of optics.
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