How Do We Get So Blessed?

Ok, I lied. I am not staying quiet about this... lol..

Steve had pretty much made up his mind he wanted to go to the Chingay Parade downtown tonight. He had heard about it from a taxi driver who told him it was good. So, we got around kinda late (again) and went downtown to try to find tickets to sit in the grandstands. We were perfectly willing to pay for them, we just needed to find where to get them. What a pain! We walked around for hours asking where to buy and each security person had a different direction.

We finally figured out we were not going to get in the grandstands; we would just have to watch from the side of the road. Needing supper, we went to Chymes (have I ever said I love that place?) and ate. Once we finished we scoped out a place to watch the parade and sat on a curb. We started chatting with one of the security women there - just friendly banter. The parade was starting in about 25 minutes. Another young lady walked up and asked if we were going to stay for the parade. Yep, sure are! She said she had some friends who could not come and they had asked her to give the tickets to someone. GIVE. We tried to pay her, but she would not even hear of it, instead rushing us off to CITY HALL to the grandstands. We had to trek a pretty good distance to get there, but we did it, got through security and were shown to our seats - the 4th row up from the main parade route on the grandstand. We could not have gotten better seats if we had handpicked them!







We sat through the entire parade, had the prime minister within 25 yards of us, enjoyed the many things going on at once - it was an amazing parade. They must have taken lessons from Walt Disney World and amped it up. It was a HUGE parade with thousands of performers, costumes, lights, firworks and floats. Wide eyed we are still just amazed that we were so fortunate to be the ones chosen by this young lady to take the tickets. And yes, we will pay it forward - we have already thought of a charity to donate that money to.








Thank you miss, what a wonderful experience you gave us!