We are getting ready to attend the wonderful Murray Bridge Christmas
Pageant. Once again we have one of the kids on a float and friends and family
on other floats. I'll be walking beside my daughter on the Girl Guide float, my waving and smiling muscles are already warmed up!!
I love the Murray Bridge Pageant, the way that the community
gets involved, the chalk pictures on the Main Street that last for weeks and
weeks after, the Power FM (local radio station) car with a trailer at the back
shaped like a boom box, Olaf the snowman, Unity College with its two trucks
with the bands blasting out Christmas Carols, the cute floats of kindy kids and
schools and other businesses and of course the big man himself in the sleigh
pulled by an old tractor...
Once more I am sure my son will be set up, poised ready to gather together a
hoard worth of lollies and other candies enough to last him til the next
Christmas Pageant. Of course he will whinge when we, his parents tell him he
needs to share with his sisters...
The heat is already making us titchy, I can see the mad dash for the door
and all the stresses involved with finding a carpark close enough that we don't
need to walk far. It will all be worth it though when the first float slowly meanders
past the stoplights and heads down our Main Street, the first person waves and
smiles and yells out that they know you (and could they have some lollies,
please?)
So bring on the frolicking, festivities and fantasticness of fun… Let the
pageant begin!!!