Known as the 'City of Roses', Portland holds an annual 'Rose Festival' each June. Although we were not able to participate in all the hoop-la downtown, I was able to help the missionaries decorate a float . . . which was totally awesome, I might add!
A good portion of what we did was re-doing parts of the horse that had been poorly done or were patchy - mostly in hard-to-reach or awkwardly placed locations. For example: almost the entire under-side of the horse had been missed. You can't see it in this picture, but while putting the glue/purple coconut on the horse, I had to lay on my back. Despite getting lots of glue on my clothes - it was a lot of fun. I learned that every surface on all the floats had to be covered with a natural substance, aka corn kernals, coconut, various nut shells and other such items.
Here is the best shot I could get of the float from the front. For all intents and purposes it was two horses running in a meadow of sorts. Unfortunately, I can't remember who we were doing the float for, but it seems that the sponsorship was a casino here in Oregon. The missionaries and I got a good laugh out of that!
Sister Butler, Ostler and Perez - what rockstars! Sister Butler and Perez have now gone home but while they were here I had a fun time working with them on the float and doing exchanges a few times. Seriously - rockstars with testimonies . . . yes, that is possible ;)
The fearsome, foursome!
Just a fun shot. We actually had to climb on ladders a lot and walk on some precarious boards for some of the stuff we did. Luckily, we all survived :)
The next couple of pictures, we're doing what I like to call, cheesin' it up!
She totally smoked me on the camera draw. . . must be some type of extra missionary power.
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