Bagpipe Music
Happy Fun Day Parade
Celebrating the happiness that exercise can bring,
over five hundred happy children and adults in sports gear
took part in a parade to promote Edinburgh's healthy and happy attitude
to health and fitness. The mile long happy parade route
began on East Market Street and then continued to weave down the Mound
before heading West through Princes Street Gardens.
Cheers and Girls Screaming
Edinburgh Leisure manages the City's 34 Sport and Leisure facilities
and wanted the people of Edinburgh to participate and dress up in their favourite
sports gear, such as swimming caps, gymnasts, karate outfits as well as golf clubs
to show the variety of physical activities available in Edinburgh.
The marchers will join Cheerleaders, Pipers, Stilt Walkers, Elite Scottish athletes
such as Championship Swimmer, Robert Lang and rising stars of the future
including Judoist, Emma Imrie and Sam Clark.
The Happy Parade and activity carnival comes at an exciting time
for Scotland as the country gears up for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Water Fountain Sounds.
After the parade, a free happy activity carnival took place
with exciting activities such as fitness and dance classes,
football, golf swinging, face painting, volleyball, tennis, a bouncy castle,
bunjee run and gigantic climbing wall.
Through the Edinburgh Leisure happy parade and carnival, they hope to send out
a strong message to the people in Edinburgh and to the rest of Scotland
that we're leading the way when it comes to physical activity
and leading healthy, happy and fulfilling lives.
They want more and more people to participate in physical activity,
and they hope that the happy parade and carnival would have inspired people
to do just that. This is Alan Taylor reporting for Taylor Made Productions,
Edinburgh.
Modern Pop Music in Background.
Film Produced by Alan Taylor.
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