By Jamie RubyOn January 1, 2014, NBC's Al Roker and Hoda Kotb will host the
125th Rose Parade live from Pasadena, California. This year the theme of the parade will be "Dreams Come True," and it which will feature forty four floats, including one celebrating
The Voice, on which this season's winner, Tessanne Chin, will perform "Singing the Dream." While this will be Roker's seventeenth year hosting the event, it will be Kotb's first.
Roker talked to SciFi Vision about the excitement of seeing the floats in person. "We get to tour the floats ahead of time and you get a real sense of the float. You get a sense of the people who have been building it because these are all volunteers who are putting on, you know, rose by rose, petal by petal, gladiola by gladiola. They are putting all this stuff on. It really is pretty amazing and, you know, literally to the point where they are putting seeds on. They are painting seeds onto the thing. It really is amazing. I can read the descriptions that there is going to be this float and that float, but boy, I've got to tell you when you see them in person and see the animation and the technology that goes into this stuff, that is when you get really excited, and then you watch the faces of the folks in the stands that are right by our booth, and they are just like going nuts as these floats come across. And you think how can they possibly even create this thing? It doesn't seem possible. I just can't wait to see them."
Kotb told the site that she was excited for
The Voice float. "I am kind of a
Voice junky too. And I can't wait because it is down to the last three obviously and tonight they are going to pick the winner...so to see whoever the winner is, [Tessanne Chin], singing on that float is going to be awesome.