Has Anyone Seen Christmas?

• St. Patrick's Day’s pot of gold large enough to hold one million pennies - that's $10,000!
• The 5 foot tall ice cream cone is enough to make 640 ice cream cones
• The turkey representing Thanksgiving is enough to feed all the players in the National Football League
• If the heart were made of real chocolate, it would be equal to 500 full-size Hershey Bars
• It took one gallon of paint to dye each Easter egg
• Santa's Castle features a list of good little children that is as long as a giraffe's neck.

Thanksgiving Facts

• The editorial staff at MSN.com ranked America’s Thanksgiving Parade® as the number one thing everyone must see in Detroit during their lifetimes.
• It would take a float more than one month to drive nonstop from Detroit to Los Angeles at its average Parade speed of 3 miles per hour, not accounting for traffic lights, stop signs and road construction!
• After Mardi Gras parades, America’s Thanksgiving Parade® is the 2nd largest distributor of beads along a parade route.
• Only 7 other nations in the world have official Thanksgiving Day holidays – Switzerland, Argentina, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Korea and Liberia. Other

Parade Floats & Balloons

• New float: Building a Life, sponsored by National City Bank
• New float: Putting America on Wheels, sponsored by UAW-GM
• Let Freedom Ring can be disassembled into 32 pieces and transported in a semi-truck allowing this patriotic masterpiece to be shared with communities across the country.
• Each of the 37 pairs of high fashion shoes on Twelve Dancing Princesses was handcrafted by Parade artists in size 59 “Superwide.”
• The wall on Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory on the new Energy Innovators float, includes more than 800 jumbo “bricks”.

Source: Lovio|George|Inc. / The Parade Company