2010 OakVille Santa Clause Parade - 501st
Nov 20, 1020 the 501st Canadian Legion volunteers for the Oakville Santa Clause parade and raise money for Make A Wish
The 501st suiting up
Down the road where the rest of the floats are
Still some time to go before our float (Section 50) is ready to go
R5 rests up for the parade
R5 poses with some of the costumed animals and their handlers
The Emperor has corrupted the costumed animals
Buckets on which means it is almost time to go
Starting to form up
Vader (Roy) starts to plan the layout of the characters
Waiting
And we are starting to walk. Of course we are not even at the start of the parade route yet. The float to the left was playing Star Wars music and had the Emperor sitting on the back giving out Christmas greetings as only the Emperor can
These are the helpers that were handing out loads of candy canes
And the 501st
We had a nice turnout for this event
One of the few photos during the event as I was busy controlling R5
The end Whew!. R5 lasted the parade (Stared getting ready at 8am and ended around 11am) but it felt like the batteries were getting weaker at the end. Most of the roads were OK but crosswalks were these brick things which had a lot of little potholes. The skirts on the foot shells took a beating and will have to be fixed. Sounds and dome lights were not working as I never had a chance to fix them after C5 when I fried the sound system.
The parade was a blast and lots of kids loved R5. Quite a few kids wanted to touch R5 and I had no problem with that but it made me lag behind the rest of the group which meant I had to play catch up quite a few times.