Friday, October 22, 2010

31; Walk Around

We live in a college town and home coming is the most important week of the year. The greek houses in Stillwater build "Decks" and spend hours "Pomping" them with tissue paper. They are very elaborate and probably cost thousands of dollars, not to mention the insane amount of man hours forced upon each member of the fraternity or sorority. There were 10 to 12 decks this year. Several had motorized parts and a couple included fountains. It's like a parade except the floats are stable and the spectators are walking around. They estimated 75 thousand people to attend this year. The theme was staying connected.

Elliot loved the Toy Story themed one. You can kind of see how many tiny pieces of tissue paper it takes to cover even a small section. They looked like giant rugs.


Did I mention they are HUGE?!

Nikon Camera

Everything you see here was moving.

3 comments:

Melissa said...

Oh man- that made me REALLY miss Stillwater. Glad you guys had fun! It looks like there were some extra cool displays this year- even with all the rain. Glad you got to get out!

Kristina said...

this is about the coolest thing ever. will you be in stillwater next year for this?

Steven and Natasha Hopkins said...

Kristina it really is something you have to see to believe.