Patty Johnson's Blog

This year we wanted to make the trailer into the Star Trek Enterprise because our theme was Dad's Computers: The Wrath of Dad. Gwyn, Vanessa and I did most of the painting of float including the sideboards and the backboard. My dad did most of the other work including making the ship out of a couple of swimming pools and the ncells out of concrete tubes and red bowls. When Adam's dad brought the trailer to town our dads brainstormed to figure out how to get everything up high and looking good. They also made sure that the music was going to work this year so you could actually hear it! After all that the only thing we had to do was find costumes which was really nice. After it all Dad told me he's retired from the float-building business mostly because he pulled a muscle in his leg getting up and down off the float and it ended up being a lot of work. Thanks DAD!