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While millions of people are sitting in their cozy living rooms sharing holiday memories with friends next to a decorated tree, at least one family plans to spend Christmas with a miniature tree fastened to the dashboard of their truck as they make their way from Spring Mills, PA to Pasadena, CA. It’s a long journey–2,600 miles–especially when you’re hauling 7 prized Percherons weighing around 1,000 pounds each. These magnificent draft horses will march down Colorado Blvd. in the Tournament of Roses 124th Parade<\/a> on Jan. 1, 2013. The prize-winning champs impress all ages with their massive size, dark shiny coats and pronounced gate.<\/p>\n The well known owners\/breeders of Windermere Farms (windermerefarmspercherons.com) were invited to participate in the parade, an honor not soon forgotten. Gerald & Melissa Allebach and son Hammer have worked with the horses to assure they don’t get spooked by crowds and noise (more than a million people attend the parade.) A veteran mare brought out of retirement will lead the team which pulls a decorated wagon adorned with 480 (40 dozen) of the finest yellow roses. The parade is broadcast throughout the world and is the top viewed annual TV broadcast internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While millions of people are sitting in their cozy living rooms sharing holiday memories with friends next to a decorated tree, at least one family plans to spend Christmas with a miniature tree fastened to the dashboard of their truck as they make their way from Spring Mills, PA to Pasadena, CA. It’s a long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}