{"id":11551,"date":"2013-12-09T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11551"},"modified":"2013-12-08T20:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T06:06:25","slug":"waimea-christmas-parade-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11551","title":{"rendered":"Waimea Christmas Parade 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I may miss some of the events here in town, but I have yet to miss a Waimea Christmas Parade. This year was no exception, I always help out at the CFHT star party afterwards.<\/p>\n

The difference this year is that I walked with the Keck float. Actually our parade committee came to me and asked me to take photos, oh… and here is a release form to sign.<\/p>\n

Of course this is a lighted parade, not wanting to look out of place I spent the morning soldering and put together a flashing LED hatband for my good cowboy hat. It came out well considering it was put together with what I had lying about. It helped that Deb whipped together a nice band from from nylon webbing to build it on.<\/p>\n

As usual the crowd was stunning, half the island shows up for these things. The main street of Waimea is lined ten people deep from end to end, sometimes more than that! Everyone is waving at folks they know in the parade, a true community event.<\/p>\n