Dunedin Holiday Parade

last Saturday we took part in the Dunedin Holiday Parade, so there!!
My head sporting antlers (one green one red) one hand leading a cute doggie called Lyl, the other one having a glove puppet wriggling,Alan and Melody similarly attired, with Napoleon a luckily good natured and rather large labrador, and of course Melody with her Jessie,
as part of the local Dog Rescue contingent -
as they say, a "once in the life" experience. I know now how J.F. felt riding his limousine amongst the boisterous crowd, though he was a tad less apprehensive, maybe... We were well received, there was so much holiday goodwill, that one could definitely got giddy on it... The sun was out, we only froze our ass off in the periods when it hid away.
Afterwards a decent cider (on tap) for me and lots of beers (some of them very good says Alan) for the others and all the celebrated dogs admitted in the House of Beers establishment and catered for with dog-dishes. Have I mentioned that the USA is a weird place, where one shouldn't say "weird" or "strange" because that sounds derogatory, so from now on it is "fascinating", interesting" or even "different"...

Both in Gainesville, and here, and even in some less touristy bits of New Orleans, people say hearty hellos and wish us well on the street and they look as they mean it.
This morning we were on our way back from our egg-benedict and oat-meal pancake breakfast at Kelly's when a bloke just hit Alan's shoulder to wish him again a good day, he nearly jumped out of his skin. When a Mancunian is tapped on the shoulder, he tends to instinctively punch...

Which reminds me, both England and Hungary have under zero (C) temperatures and snow.
so even though it is windy and sometimes rainy here, it gets still over 10C. Record cold weather is forecast for the next few days however.

Picture shows Alan and Jessie at home at Melody's and Melody and me joining the for our first welcome drinks at Rosie's last Tuesday. We are 1 minute walk from that bar...
lots of other photos were made of the beach, boats, quant houses, food etc - but as mentioned - they have to wait for a camera-lead back in Gainesville.