Rose Float Decorating Rose Float Decorating

Devanshi Kothari | 12 | President

On December 29th, 9 OA Key Clubbers boarded a bus and drove 30 minutes to Pasadena where they were able to volunteer and decorate floats for the Rose Float Parade. Despite the cold, we were at Savanna High School at 5:30 am to check in and then to board the buses. We took a quick group photo and headed to the decorating warehouse.

After receiving safety instructions, we all walked into the warehouse and were assigned to different floats with different tasks. Some of our members were able to get on top of the scaffolding for the floats and directly place flowers and leaves onto the floats. However, for those of us who were scared of heights, we were assigned to tasks of running the flowers to those on the scaffolding and prepping the flowers and leaves.

In terms of prepping the leaves, we would pick out leaves that were properly sized and put on glue on them, ready to be placed. For the flowers, we would pick out the flowers off the stems, spread them out and put glue on them. Though these tasks were tedious, with ample breaks and pleasant conversation with those around us, we continued these tasks for 8 hours.

Overall, this event was super fun and it was exciting to see how all the floats for the Rose Float Parade are made. As a well-attended event from many divisions, this was successful and a great experience overall. One of our members even got interviewed for a news broadcast. In all, I encourage our members that if they were not able to attend this year, to look into attending this event next year!