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Hi! Happy New Year!!! 

Here is my picture, proudly holding my Tropical Breeze, taken by the Marriott Hotel (Newark airport) lobby Christmas tree, where we stayed during our visit for the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

  What a trip of a lifetime that was!  I got to perform in the parade as a member of the Tall Flag twirling auxilliary with the Awesome Original Second Time Arounders Marching Band, St. Petersburg, FL.  As the name implies, it is the first band of its type, and quite possibly one of the largest permanent marching bands in the world.  The group consists of over 500 members that are former high school, college and military marching band members. The ages of the band members range from 18 to 85. Members come from all over Florida and the southeastern U.S. just to perform each year.

As if marching in the Grand-daddy of all parades wasn't enough, we all had a blast seeing the lights going up on the huge Rockefeller Center tree, shopping at Macy's on Black Friday, seeing Wicked on Broadway and the Rockettes at Radio City….. and just experiencing the excitement of the Big Apple at Christmas time!!!!

Please feel free to edit this, if you want to make grammatical additions or corrections.  Thanks for a great newpaper!!!!!


Karen Neumann
Safety Harbor, FL 34695