We did it!! Edenbridge Fireworks Parade
Now, I might bore some of you with this and some may think she is a tad sad to get so excited with something like this but this was a huge deal for me, well for both of us but for me personally it was something I never thought in a million years we could ever pull off and so successfully. (We were so wrong!!)
Everyyear, me and the husband say "next year, we will do a float" and everytime we walk off, it happened for ten years, last year we took the plunge and took part in the school entry but as we walked off that nignt, we looked at each other and both said at the same time "let's do it!". I spoke excitedly as we walked back, I had images of a load of doctor who's' walking down the street with torches, celebrating 50 years of doctor who, never once imagining that anyone would ever come. So we set to work and with the help of some fantastic people, cosplayers started to say yes, but as I am a very negative person, I still had in the back of my mind "what if" but then as the months went on, more people came on board, not just doctor who characters, but batman, joker, the grinch to name but a few, we couldn't believe it. We seemed to get to September and then october hit, then we only had a few weeks left before the big night, we had secured sponsorship, we had a lorry, we had a design in our head, we had characters, we were set but then, with one week to go, our design took a turn for the worse, we couldn't get anymore material for our 'vision' we had already began to build it, we had to think of a plan b, we didn't have one!! But we sat and looked around and saw all the carpet tubing we had lying around (as you do) and the husband got to work making some rather awesome fireworks out of them, we didn't have a spare room to make things, so our dining room became our workshop, and our kitchen, lounge, hall..... We had booked the local community centre for all the costumers, we bought lots of food and basically drained our pockets but we wouldn't have it any other way, the day came and it was a whirlwind from start to finish, thank god for McDonald for breakfast that's all I can say!! The day finally came, it was a whirlwind from start to finish, people arrived, people ate, they walked and do you know what, when I was walking out in front, I looked round and their they were, the doctors with torches....
Apart from one hitch, it went brilliantly, we won best newcomer, best adult float and our joker won best adult costume, followed by coming second overall, and coming runner up in two other category's, so for a first time entry, it was brilliant but I wasn't about the winning, we just wanted to raise some money for autism all stars and have some fun.
