Christmas parade 2005

With one of my best Pharmacy buddies, Lye Funn.

AC's parents left this morning. Only managed to fall asleep at 1am and woke up at 5am. I lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether i should go downstairs to bid them farewell or not. I dont like farewells. The enveloping sadness that i may never see them again. It was 5.30am when i finally decided to present myself, bedhair, jammies and pasty i-just-woke-up complexion. Some lasting impression eh? :P Gave Auntie a hug *something i learnt to be comfortable with since arriving in NZ* and waved goodbye to them as they were driven off to the airport. *sigh* The flat has been extremely quiet since...

This is the first time that i've taken 2 naps. One 20 minute nap before going to church, another 1 hour (on-off) nap from 6-7pm. ONE HOUR! It was on Chia's bed..among her clothes and all. My legs started feeling cold after a bit so i made myself comfortable with her woollen blanket and positioned Piggy so that the sun wasnt in my eyes. Heh. Felt like there wasnt a care in the world, and all i could do was sleep.... sleep.... and sleep. But it's inevitable... i have to wake up. darn.

Christmas parade was 25 minutes late. I think the Asian population is getting so great that they've starting cultivating the 'late' mentality too. That's not good! Well, these are some of the colours along Dunedin's usually-grey street. The floats were beautiful. The kids in the floats did so well too! So cute!!! I'm having problems choosing which pictures to put up. If i did for all of them, that would be 59 pictures in all.. Enjoy... :)

Spongebob Squarepants!!

Being born in the year of the mouse... One of my most favourite floats.. the kids are so cute!!

Jean Batten's influence? Maybe? Hmm... sorry i dont know planes.

It's a Cinderella story

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones.. yabadabadooooo!

Dunedin's famous.. how can we have a parade without an albatross..

No music, no life..

Grand finale... Santa and his trusy reindeers!