Every year, our St. Patrick's Day Parade float gets bigger, better and more complicated.

Here's how our planning starts:

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This was Peach's vision for this year's volcano float. Yes, we originally talked about having a flash mob as part of our extravaganza, but that idea was nixed out of concern for safety and logistics. Plus, we already had a lot to plan, and wrangling a flash mob added extra work.

We start simple and go from there.