So today we head out on an hour or so north journey to see and smell the "Rose Bowl Parade Floats!" Being rather excited, and juiced up on advil (still fighting my flu like symptoms) off we buzz up the road. Using our cell phone gps's (I am being accused of holding mine upside down), and reading road signs where to go...we get off the floral splendor track. However stopping at a local donuts shop, we figure out we were not on track! Somehow my phone map was upside down...go figure. So finally we arrive in beautiful Pasadena. You can see the crowds milling towards the gated entry at Victory Park. Finally finding a parking spot down a steep hill, we slowly make our way to floral fantasy!
Upon getting to the gated kingdom we are told that no more tickets are being sold today. What???? I tell the young man that we came all the way from New Jersey to see the floats. He then responded that some have come as far as Vegas! Yes, in my Jersey Girl head I wanted to teach him a lesson on maps and distance from Jersey to Vegas, but alas I was considerate of his map disability and said, "Oh, okay." I had to ask though, "can you smell the flowers?" "Only in the early morning," my map mismatched guardman replied. With hunched over shoulders, and dreams blown away like the fuzz on the front yard dandelions we walked back downhill to our awaiting car.
Did we feel like bimbo's?? Maybe.
This misadventure put us on a new road towards home ~ Freeway 605 to Seal Beach. What is Seal Beach? That is the mystery....it is near the Navy base (hence...Seal Beach) we think. But, it is also close to LEISURE WORLD!!!
Not sure what you do at Leisure World, but some day in the not to distance future we might just find out. p.s. 9000 retired guests live right at the moment in Leisure World!
I do think that our next floral fantasy drive might just be right here:
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