Patty Johnson's Blog

Trivia weekend really started off with a bang this year.  We worked super hard on our parade float only to see it come crashing down on Patch Street on the way to the parade.  I was riding in Bill's car, directly behind Adam's dads truck which was pulling the trailer so I got to see (a little too closely) the backboard with our sweet spinning roulette wheel come flying off the back of the trailer.  His dad quickly turned around and everyone in our caravan to the parade jumped out of their cars to lift the backboard back on the trailer so we could make to the parade starting site and get it fixed.
They drove way too fast though so one of our sideboards came flying off next.  I jumped out of Bill's car to get it and threw it in Steve's van (while being yelled at by random people to get out of the road) Luckily, Adam's dad really great at fixing stuff so he had wire in the back of his truck and somehow quickly wired the float back together.  My dad showed up with power tools so we could get the sideboard back on too.  The rest of us worked together and got our float back together. Our music worked really good for the first time ever on the BIG speakers. The parade went really well, even though I was sore for days from throwing poker chips (we had over 4,000 poker chips and two big buckets of candy)  We ended up taking 3rd place in the parade, winning a inflatable Nicholas C. Point and a bunch of Portessi Pizzas. Other Parade winners were in 1st place TFC 27 and in 2nd Place Freak Gordon