Every year the Winter Parade is one way Minnesotans thumb their noses at the winter weather – well, some Minnesotans. The rest of us make sure we stay warm.
In these photos you can see were we observed the parade from – we were invited by a Company who had rented a passage of the Skyway for their guests for the evening. Normally these passages connect all the buildings in the city center, so that you can walk round the whole city and not once go outside. And to prevent you from having to cross the road in this way, these passages are all on the second floors of every building and connect the buildings with eath other way above street level. All the shops in the builsings are also on this Skywalk on the second level.
The big thing about the parade is of course the fact that all the floats carry thousands of small lights and even people in the parade wear costumes with lights on. (Remember, in winter the sun sets here before five in the afternoon!)
