Santa Claus arrived in Denver this past weekend at the 43rd annual Parade of Lights extravaganza, which parades past excited spectators for two miles in Denver, Colorado. My daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter attended the parade and had a wonderful time. They are allowing me to use all their cell phone photos and videos to share with you on my blog this week. I hope you will enjoy them!
They had grandstand seats, across from the Denver City and County building. This facebook video on my Mille Fiori Facebook page above shows how the parade begins with the spectacular lighting of the building!
I've blogged about the wonderful way Denver lights up many of it's building for Christmas in this blog post and also this post and this one.
The Denver City and County building lights up with over 600,000 permanently installed, energy saving, LED lights and includes a beautiful lighted nativity scene in front.
My daughter and family are in the upper left of this collage enjoying the different marching bands and parade dignitaries that were passing by in the stagecoach.
There were many ornate floats in the parade, including a living nativity scene...
...a gingerbread house, and a dancing Chinese dragon!
This Mille Fiori Favoriti Facebook video shows the Air Force Academy Cadet Honor Guard that was marching in the parade.
There were also giant balloons in the parade, such as Frosty the Snowman, a Snow Tiger, and the Gift of Life Balloon.
There was a new float this year of a beautiful glowing ice castle made by the Independent Electrical Contractors Rocky Mountains.
Even the America Flag was glowing in the Parade of Lights!
In this Mille Fiori Favoriti Facebook Page video, we can see the arrival of Santa Claus at the end of the hour-long parade!
As you can see my granddaughter was so excited to be at the parade that she stood by the barricade for almost the entire time and enjoyed it very much! It was one of the highlights of the Christmas season, so far, for her.
Held since 1975, the Parade of Lights parade is sponsored each year by businesses and is free for spectators, with a fee-only for those wishing to have elevated grandstand seats.
More holiday happenings can be seen on my MilleFioriFavoriti Instagram page--please follow along to see more!
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