Day's of 47

Today and tomorrow at the South Town Expo there is a Float Preview Party going on.  It was pretty neat to see the floats that will be in the Day's of 47 Parade next Saturday.  Lots of work has taken place to make all the floats. 

 We met thWittwers there.  They are in our ward and Marcus is Paul's home teaching partner.  We also took Arlene Ashby with us.  She is one of the sisters that Paul and Marcus go home teaching to.  We had a nice time.  

The theme for the Parade this year is "Then and Now."  It was fun to see the different ideas using that theme.

This one was Global Warming   ---  Blanketing the World with Service.  They had lots of blankets on it that I'm sure will go to the Humanitarian Center when the parade is over. 

This one was so cute -- Trekking Now and Then.  The modern day vehicle is on its way to Nauvoo and the covered wagon is on it's way to Salt Lake City!   On the back of the covered wagon it says Zion or Bust!

This one was neat with being prepared then and now.  There were the seven years of plenty etc. back in Joseph's time and then food storage now.  Paul took a picture of the lady that created the cow heads. 

Lots of work took place with all of these floats. 

This one was about "Guidance" then and now.  The Liahona in the back and a GPS in the front. 

Canyon Water sustains life then and now!

This one was amazing with all the crickets.  The seagulls are making treats out of the crickets in lots of ways.  They also had lots of crickets that were in front of the float on the floor that they are going to sell tomorrow.  They were really neat!

This is more of the cricket float showing the seagulls  --  Turning trials into treats: Then and Now

The next picture is of our Stake's Float.  Sister Sleight in our ward helped a lot with this float and a young family from our ward will be riding on the float in the parade.  This came from an idea of a family in the stake whose ancestors lived in a dugout when they came to the valley. One day they were in the dugout and their cow wandered up the hill and came back on top of the dugout and fell through the roof!  It is a cute float.  The back says how now we, in South Jordan live in the shadows of two temples --  Oquirrh Mountain Temple and the Jordan River Temple  -- only town to have two Temples! 

This isn't even all of the floats.  It was fun to see them and will be fun to watch the parade on TV Saturday after we have seen the floats up close.  Hope you get to see the parade too!