Friday, December 02, 2005

Parade of Lights

I went to Denver's Parade of Lights. It was cool to be at a parade held at night. They had local highschool marching bands; the bandmembers had lights on their uniforms and had decorated their instruments (i.e. the trumpets all put their instruments in decorated boxes and cutout holes for their hands). It actually made me miss that time in my life a little - to miss marching band? I never would have thought it. It's like the Rose Bowl Parade except instead of flowers, lights. I've said it before, this town is really into lights. They also had giant balloons. If it's a giant balloon dog - the spectators chant "spin the dog" and you can get the volunteers holding it to spin the balloon. You don't see that in the Macy's Day parade.

For dinner I went to Potager. They only use whatever vegetable are in season and organic foods. We had a squash soup, spinach salad and vegetable lasagna. It was excellent.