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These pictures and videos are from my side of the float – we were sailing the port side of this ship… The other side was the “media side” that faced most of the cameras (for the benefit of those of you who didn’t see my mug on TV and began to doubt the story of my journey!!!) Here’s a blurry shot of us walking from our bus to the float on New Year’s Day morning – Number 16 is Kim, and that’s all of us ahead of her and around her… Here is video of us getting to the float on New Year’s morning:
Here’s me with the picture of Kari that they made for me. They made and framed photos of our donors, or in the case of donor family members, of the loved one they lost…
Here were the people to my right – left to right, this is Eric, Mel and Jose – in the back is Julie and Dave… Immediately to my right, out of the picture, was Denice…
Here were the people to my left – left to right this is Lauren and Debbie (with the camera…) You can’t see them, but behind Lauren and Debbie are Jim and Mandy and Bonnie… We were all on the off-camera side because they didn’t want us showing up the flowers…
We met a lot of people along the route, like these two very early in the parade… People who made a point of telling us that they signed – that they were organ donors… Here is some video of our ride:
It all happened so fast – we were in Pasadena for a week, but it went by in no time and went out with a bang… I met so many people who I would have liked to have spent years getting to know – we all touched each other’s lives in ways we’ll never forget… It was hard to leave all of them – but I know they’ll be in my heart forever…
I’ve got more stories to post – about shopping at Von’s before the parade – about so many of the people we met while we were there – about some of the amazing things that happened during the parade… This is an ongoing saga – but this little post covered much of the reason we were there – to ride a float!!!
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Parade Day!!!
I think it truly was the ride of a lifetime…
These pictures and videos are from my side of the float – we were sailing the port side of this ship… The other side was the “media side” that faced most of the cameras (for the benefit of those of you who didn’t see my mug on TV and began to doubt the story of my journey!!!) Here’s a blurry shot of us walking from our bus to the float on New Year’s Day morning – Number 16 is Kim, and that’s all of us ahead of her and around her… Here is video of us getting to the float on New Year’s morning:
Here’s me with the picture of Kari that they made for me. They made and framed photos of our donors, or in the case of donor family members, of the loved one they lost…
Here were the people to my right – left to right, this is Eric, Mel and Jose – in the back is Julie and Dave… Immediately to my right, out of the picture, was Denice…
Here were the people to my left – left to right this is Lauren and Debbie (with the camera…) You can’t see them, but behind Lauren and Debbie are Jim and Mandy and Bonnie… We were all on the off-camera side because they didn’t want us showing up the flowers…
We met a lot of people along the route, like these two very early in the parade… People who made a point of telling us that they signed – that they were organ donors… Here is some video of our ride:
It all happened so fast – we were in Pasadena for a week, but it went by in no time and went out with a bang… I met so many people who I would have liked to have spent years getting to know – we all touched each other’s lives in ways we’ll never forget… It was hard to leave all of them – but I know they’ll be in my heart forever…
I’ve got more stories to post – about shopping at Von’s before the parade – about so many of the people we met while we were there – about some of the amazing things that happened during the parade… This is an ongoing saga – but this little post covered much of the reason we were there – to ride a float!!!
