Saturday, July 27th, 2015
Today was the day for the Lions Club International Parade. There are about 20,000 Lions club attendees at the convention. It was neat to see delegations from all over the world wearing their native costumes and/or outfits representing their club. Betty had borrowed a loden green PA Lions shirt for me to wear, had the appropriate pins and even a small PA flag for me to wave. Our PA group was 38th in parade order. As we walked it was neat to see so many people wave back and cheer as we passed. I can see how international conventions like this do a lot for building community worldwide. Quite a contrast to all the bad you see on the evening news each night!
We spent a relaxing afternoon at the pool here at the Hawaiian Prince Hotel. Then we got ready for the International Show at the Convention Center this evening. It was a rock music extravaganza. Since most of the audience was older, we were surprised at this choice of entertainment. The groups performing were Journey, Jefferson Starship and Kenny Loggins. Betty knew a lot of the songs such as Journey’s Anyway You Want It and Jefferson Starships’ Sarah. I recognized a few but not many. I did recognize Your Momma Don’t Dance and Your Daddy Don’t Rock n Roll and Footloose by Kenny Loggins. I must say this concert was a quite different that my usual Saturday evening back in Blandon.
Tomorrow we are headed for Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona. We need to catch the 7:21 am bus. Hope we make it!
Too bad the convention was not on the national news!! Looks awesome. Lots of awesome people in the world!! Have fun!!