My first year at a new job and I decided to make a splash in the company, and also within the community. So I launched a huge project to participate in the 2009 Seafest Parade. After a couple months of non-commitment from my coworkers everyone finally jumped on the band wagon in the last week. I had plans to put forth a float regardless of how many people actively participated, albeit it would have been on a much much smaller scale than what we did create. A huge thank you to my wonderful coworkers who truly came together to make an amazing float that was fun for everyone, especially our work children who rode in the back of the float.
What Happens when you have a float decorating potluck supper at your home the night before Seafest and end up storing the balloons for the night… lol.
Seafest 2009 had an interesting theme, that was actually quite hard to come up with an original float idea for.
A Whale of a Good Time.
The obvious choice was a whale. However, how to stand out in a sea of Whales? Pinocchio? Moby Dick? Killer Whales?
When I heard that we would have use of a trailer my immediate thought was to create a bathtub, and with team input we decided on transforming the trailer into a beluga shaped bath tub, full of balloon bubbles, and give out bubbles to the kids in the audience. Things with the trailer didn’t pan out, but thankfully our manager has a pick up truck and we transformed that into a bathtub… complete with an amazing wonderful Paper-Mache' Grey Whale courtesy of the guys at work. It was absolutely amazing, and was set up to look like the Whale was having “A Splashing Good Time” in the tub. Surrounded by balloon bubbles and our children it was awesome. We also added a bubble blower to the float to add to the whole bathtub theme. As an added plus the staff showed up in their pj’s & robes just like they were getting ready for a bath.
No comments:
Post a Comment