Adelaide holds 93rd annual Christmas Pageant parade

ABC NEWS (Australia)

It's the event that signals the start of the festive season. More than three hundred and thirty thousand people lined the streets of Adelaide's CBD this morning for the much-loved annual Christmas Pageant. Celebrating it's 93rd anniversary, families came from far and wide to celebrate and share the Christmas spirit.

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00:01The Adelaide CBD buzzing with excitement as hundreds of thousands of people await the arrival of Father Christmas.

00:10Very excited.

00:12Excited to see Santa.

00:14Really excited.

00:16Families coming from far and wide to soak up the atmosphere at the 93rd Christmas pageant,

00:23which organisers say is the largest public parade in the southern hemisphere.

00:28We normally do the Wyala one and we decided to do this one this year.

00:35Many camped out for hours to secure front row seats.

00:39My family's been out here since four to get a good spot.

00:43Mummy got here at four o'clock this morning.

00:46Some turning it into a fun-filled family event.

00:50My sisters come in late at night on Friday night and they come in and book all our spots.

00:55As you can see we go from there right through about there and there's probably 30, 40 of us.

01:00Others just soaking up the Christmas spirit.

01:03Seeing everyone and having fun.

01:06I'm most looking forward to seeing my mum because she's in the pageant this year.

01:10The atmosphere and all the joy and all that, yeah.

01:14This year four new floats added to the line-up including Magic Fairyland and My Pet Dragon.

01:21Special guest, former wiggle Emma Memma also making her Christmas pageant debut.

01:2785 floats and more than 300 elves and clowns led the way for Father Christmas along the route from South Terrace to right here at Beehive Corner.

01:37While there are still 47 sleeps until Christmas, the countdown has well and truly begun in South Australia.

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