2012 Portland Rose Festival

Ya...a rather delayed post on 2012 Portland Rose Festival held on early June.  Though the event was two months old now, still felt like to share the photos taken during the Grand Floral Parade.  ;P

It was a last minutes decision to attend the Grand Floral Parade and we arrived just on time to see the beginning of the Parade.  There were many people and if it was not our friend who were there early, we might not get a spot on the route to enjoy a nice scene of spring.

I was impressed by the grandest of the parade which lives up to its name: marching bands, flowers, and floats appear in full force! 

'Going-Fur-st Class' from Alaska Airline, what a creative slogan

FreyMeyer, one of our regular visited store

Besides these, there were also many other interesting groups participated and contributed to a unique and rich parade.

The famous Oregon Duck

The lovely clowns

From the Air Museum

The Union Pacific

From Portland Fire Bureau

The Beauties & The Horses

Lady & Llama..

Cute Little Pony

I didn't expect to see so many international team participated in the Parade as well, e.g from Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand etc, which was really something different from all the other Parade that i have seen before.

From the Sister Cities

Our home country flag was there too!

The Vietnam Team

Korea Team...

Thailand Team....

Mexico...?

Immediately after the end of the Parade, the cleaning activities started - an impressively efficient action.  No wonder the city was uphold clean always.

We also swing by the Waterfront to let the girls witness the Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race. 

The girls ended up played a little guessing game with us by having each of us to predict the winner by choosing a coloured flag.  Round after round, and they were so excited when the coloured flag they chosen was the first to be taken by the respective dragon boat....little girls with their simple game, which kept them pretty entertained for an afternoon.  ;D