Happy Thanksgiving! ( A Jen Post)

I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. This was our first Thanksgiving on our own. Before the Bic City move, Mike and I would alternate years with our families, except for the year I lost my mind and wanted to make Thanksgiving dinner by myself for both of our families. Anyhow, needless to saw we're big family people so it was really weird to be by yourself on a family holiday. We had a really fun time though.

We got up early on Thanksgiving morning and went down to central park to watch the parade.

So, picture 2 million people in one area. Now, that's really hard to picture because I was amazed by how many people were there. So, imagine how you feel when you are de-boarding a plane. You can't really move, but everyone wants to move and you are all trying to move in the same direction. Ok, now imagine that on a city street, but not quite as orderly and some people pushing and shoving through those attempting to be orderly. And welcome to the streets lining the parade route. If that's not a good enough visualization for you- picture 130 packed arco arenas. (That's from Mike)

The parade began around 78th street and it was really bad and crowded from there until about 68th street. We got a great spot right near the ABC building on Central Park West between W 66th and W 67th streets.

We were about 3 people back from the street and really enjoyed ourselves. When the parade started I got tears in my eyes. I know that seems lame, but it was just so cool to see live and in person the parade that I've watched every year on TV from as far back as I can remember. It was so fun! BTW the people on the floats don't perform the whole time. They just preform at certain locations, mostly they just wave. However, the marching bands and dance troops preform all the way down the route.

The balloons were so huge that they blocked the sun most of the time. It was amazing.

After the parade Mike and I both had to go into work. We got off around 7pm, went home and heated up our Turkey Dinner for 2 from whole foods market. It was good!!

Here are some pictures from the parade