This year's parade theme of "Family", certainly describes our float. "Mom's Flight School", depicts our mama dragon having just experienced the hatch of her babies atop the ruins of a medieval castle. The mama dragon is now teaching her first hatchling the art of flying by attempting to launch the baby from atop her giant legs. Adding to this year's whimsical design presentation is the engineering of an awesome animation device and hydraulic system that moves the giant mother dragon legs up and down while the baby dragon's wings flap and smoke shoots from the mother's huge nostrils.

We are one of six floats built entirely by volunteers to be honored in the 2005 Rose Parade.

The South Pasadena float is the oldest self-built all volunteer entry and the second oldest entry in the parade behind the City of Los Angeles. All of our volunteer builders, decorators and community members take special satisfaction for their work.

South Pasadena is a city that is strong in community, and family. The creation of our float took over
1500 labor hours from 20 builder volunteers during a three-month period and over 600 individuals from
all over the United States gave their time to decorate the float in less than three days.