Busy Week

We have had a lot of things going on this week. July 20th and 21st was the Days of 47 Float Preview Party in which Cheri and I are in charge of. We checked the floats in on Saturday and was there at the Expo Center from 7am to 6pm. Both Monday and Tuesday we were there from about 8am to 10pm so we had some pretty long days. Tonight we will be bringing the floats down to their staging area for the big parade tomorrow. We will be there about midnight and start taking them out about one am. It takes about two and a half hours to drive them down town. The Highway Patrol will escort them down the freeway at about 10mph from 90th south to 4th south. It's quite an amazing thing to see all of the floats going down the freeway in the middle of the night with all of the trucks and highway patrol cars with their lights flashing. I'm sure if you were from out of town and didn't know about the parade, you would think this was pretty weird to be driving past this parade on the freeway. They take 10 down at a time about every 15 minutes until they are all out of the Expo. I will get to go to bed at about 2:30am and back up at 4am for our first meeting at 4:45am. Then the big event, the Days of 47 Parade. I will be at KSL TV and help stage the parade for the camera's and Cheri will be at the front mixing the parade in order. Cheri and I have been doing this for over 15 years and we are still dumb enough do keep doing it. Boy I'm getting too old for this!