Fun couple of days but exhausting and had a few "bumps" but we all made it home safely and enjoyed turkey and trimmings tonight! Nice dinner with 2 other couples & sisters of fellow Dora's Wednesday night. Went to bed early since alarm was set for 5:30 am; woke up at 4:30 with a terrible tummy ache! Made it to parade seating area early and got a front row seat...only to have a TV news camera "park" right in front of us as they were sitting up for the parade. Moved to another area; TV station broadcasting the parade hands out these stupid reindeer ears that got in our line of view so we moved again. Parade begins and rude people in front of us decide to STAND up blocking our view
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so we moved AGAIN. Ended up standing on a short wall so we could see over the "gate crashers"....I'd be willing to bet half of them didn't have tickets to the seated ticketed area since they all filtered in AFTER they stopped limited access!
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Got a few nice pictures but a lot are blurry....camera kept focusing on those stupid ears or the light pole in front of us! Light rain started during the parade; not much just enough to make the streets slick. During the performance...at mid-center in front of the TV camera one of the Dora's "busted her backside"...BIG TIME!
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SHE was fine but a little further down the street another Dora twisted her ankle and had to leave the group with the Director so EMS could check her out....she was directed to get an X-ray when she got back to Bellville! Got back to the hotel and waited for the group; they looked like the "walking wounded"
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when they walked in cold and wet...injured and "pride was injured" and she was crying harder than the girl with the busted ankle!
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But then...as Katie and 2 of her friends were watching David's recording of the performance a lady walked up to them and explained she was tourist in Houston from Singapore and wanted to take a picture with the 3 girls. She LOVED them in the parade and told Katie..."the best part of the parade and I loved watching YOU"! THEN....David goes to valet parking to notify them we'd be leaving shortly but needed to finish packing first. THEY told him our car would be ready in ABOUT 3 MINUTES!
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There was a 10 minute wait for the elevator
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so we quickly threw our things together and got back down to start for home. Now it's a good nights rest and a TOUGH football game tomorrow evening! Keeping our fingers crossed the team is ready to play!
7AM in the lobby...