Hoping for a better year for us all in 2020…❤️🙏🏼 Checkout last couple of days pics of our adventures…

On new years eve we drove up to Pasadena, saw the huge lines of volunteers waiting to decorate the floats, met with Bill & Mary, ate at the Doghaus, watched the parade route on Colorado get busy into the evening and then to bed, while P abandoned me and went off to meet friends…

Early start on New Years day as fleets of coaches whizzed down California Ave at 5am with police escorts… Drove as close to Orange Grove as possible, given all the guards and roadblocks… Then walked to the float lineup while still dark, and walked up towards TV Corner under the floodlights, as hundreds of people did final prep, Band members lined up shivering from the cold, and dawn broke in the east…

Raced back to a sleeping P, and left him to head up to Hill / Colorado in time to see the B2 bomber fly by at 8am… Lovely walking down Colorado as it got warmer, and saw the crowds packed deep, and the religious nuts preaching up and down with music and banners… Phone battery nearly died, but got back to car and then connected with Jules who had just landed from Sydney… Watched the parade, which was great, then went with P for Din Tai Fung in Glendale, dodging all the exiting traffic. The wait was 1.5hrs so found Shake Shack across the road, and got terrible service / wrong orders, but fun time.. Drove to Hollywood to meet Mark & boys, then dropped off P and drove back to SD, with a beautiful sunset on the right….listening to Pandora EDM and Gladwells new book Talking to Strangers (very good, as usual)… Long day… Happy New Year…