Our World: Adelaide Christmas Pageant 2011

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Adelaide Christmas Pageant 2011

It's a big event every year and we were all excited to see what it's all about. It starts at 9.30am but people line the streets of Adelaide as early as 7am to get front row seats. We only arrived at 8.30am so we had a lot of time to kill. All the kids draw on the streets with chalk and there's balloons etc. The pageant only reached us at 9.50am and the last float with Santa Claus went past at 11am. There were 1000 clowns, 68 floats and 26 bands. It was a huge turnout and very festive. A scorcher of a day, the sun beating down on us. Natalia and I were invited by a nice family to join them at the front. Nobody stood up in front of anybody. All the children in front remained seated, and the next row maybe kneeled etc. so everybody had a good view and respected the next person. It was a well organised event; something we are not used to. The floats were very well made and the highlight was of course Santa Claus. At first Natalia was petrified of the noise and sat on Kim's shoulders but when she got used to the commotion she came and sat with me in the front again...
Then later in the afternoon we went to a school fair up the road from Natalia's school. Natalia had a lot of fun there too. It was a busy busy day......