Parade on Norway's national day!

This year, as the past few years, the Nordic Garrison made their presence felt at the parade in Trondheim, during the national day 17th of may.
This was my first time attending the parade, and it was a really fun experience.
We used the downstairs club at my work as a changing area and hangout before and after the parade, and we ended up being 23 troopers walking the streets of Trondheim.

We tried to spread out and walk in formation to really take up space and make an impact in the parade.
Which I really think worked out good, we got a lot of exposure, and thousands of people had showed up to view the parade even though the weather was really bad.

One of the troopers arranged a pole-cam to be on top of the banner and film the entire parade, the movie will have to be edited but I think it turned out good!

Here I am being an exemplary posterboy for Norway and the 501st Legion, this picture showed up on imgur and had over 170.000 views 24 hours after the parade:

And there were a few videos that surfaced on youtube that same evening and the days after, here's one where I saw my girlfriend and ran over to give her a hug:

And here's another one I got sent by a nice girl:

 After the parade, we walked up to the westfront of the Nidaros Cathedral and took a picture of all attending troopers and support, quite fitting, as we are planning to design a patch for the troopers in Nidaros using the westfront of the Cathedral as an iconic image with TIE-fighters flying over it.

As we came back to our changingarea we already started to plan towards next years parade, shooting for 50 attending troopers, where many of them hopefully will be troppers travelling from other cities (and hopefully neighbouring countries), and many of them troopers based in Trondheim. We are growing at a rapid pace, with 16 confirmed members of The 501st Legion and at least 8 people at different stages of building their first costume! We might have our own C3PO and R2D2 even, and with 2013 marking 30 years since the release of Return of The Jedi, we might have to find a way to mark that in some way too.
See you around!