It's electric light parade time!
Yes, it’s that time of year. Break out the warm sweaters, knit hats, gloves and bring your thermos of hot chocolate to keep warm at this year’s APS Electric Light Parade.
This is one of those events that makes Phoenix feel like a small town to me. It starts at 7pm some people start showing up in the afternoon to stake out a spot. We usually put our chairs out midday and we walk over between 6:30 and & 7:00. When we arrive, there sit our chairs just waiting for us – like we live in Mayberry or something. The parade starts about 7pm. There are the usually folks selling stuff if you just must have a light parade foam finger or glowsticks shaped like Camelback Mountain. Mostly, it’s kids and people with their kids taking in the floats. The floats are not going to impress the Rose Bowl committee but a VW bug with lights all over it and a boom box in the trunk makes my son giggle.
My kids love staying up late, sitting in the dark before the parade begins, the fact that they are sitting in the middle of the street and, of course, the lit up cars, trucks & vans floats.
The route begins south of Bethany Home Rd on Central Ave, heads south to Camelback and east on Camelback to 7th Street turning south it ends north of Indian School Road.
