Good Things

Leopard Print
Food in the fridge
Organizing the basement (thanks DW, the shelf is PERFECT)
Hot tea for a scratchy throat

Going to talk to the http://www.woburnlionsclub.org/Facts.cfm tonight. The http://501neg.com/ and http://www.alderaanbase.com/ have marched in their annual Halloween parade for many years, and given that all of our groups are heavily involved in charity work, they have wanted us to do a little presentation for them for quite some time. Hopefully, this can contribute to a deeper partnership for local Metro-Boston events.

Wrangling, 10/25?

Brian and I are marching again with the 501st and Rebel Legion in the Woburn, MA Halloween parade. I'm wondering if any of you folks would have any interest in coming along to "wrangle" for us, and see the ins and outs of a 501st/Rebel Legion event?

The parade kicks off at 1:00 PM and is a 2 mile (flat, straight) walk. We are required to be in the Woburn Movie Theater parking lot by 11:00 AM, and then the road is closed. We are typically done with the whole shebang by 4:00 PM (it is a large, large parade with an estimated 80k of viewers along the route - Main Street Woburn to the Winchester line - and lots of groups marching), so it requires some waiting in the parking lot and packing some food/water for yourself. The movie theater is very kind and offers us use of their bathrooms and concession stand. The group will typically grab dinner afterwards together, last year at the Burlington Mall food court (to make planning for such a large group easier).

Anyone want to come along? We will have some awesome props this year: An ewok village float complete with ewoks (seriously) and a roving roger-roger droid battle truck, complete with General Grievous (to go with our collection of awesome iconic Clone Wars characters). Brian has been hard at work to build our clone army - 23 new suits on top of the ones we already have in the groups.

It is one of our largest events all year long and we always have a ton of fun. The troops could use your help to keep them in line (wrangling involves helping direct the bucketed folks because they can't see or really bend over, picking up falling armor bits and taping troops back together, helping the rare injured troop into our vehicles if necessary, taking photos, making sure kids from the crowd don't run into the fray). Woburn is a tame, family-friendly crowd and so wrangling for this event is a treat compare to some other large-scale events (St. Patrick's in Southie, anyone?!). :)

Or, just come out and see us march. Park yourself along the route for a show. I figured, it couldn't hurt to ask here if anyone wanted to come out (Melissa graced us with her very helpful presence last year - you can always count on a Browncoat). :)