Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...a Belated Happy Thanksgiving

This is a bit late, but Happy Thanksgiving, all! It was a pretty crazy weekend for us, between the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, prepping for the potluck dinner at Dan’s brother Andrew’s apartment, Black Friday shopping (yes, we’re crazy, but you already knew that) and the Iron Bowl (for those of you who don’t know, that’s the yearly game between Alabama state rivals, Auburn University and University of Alabama. Auburn won, War Eagle!), I didn’t get much of a chance to write a post.

One of my dreams, since I was four years old, was to go to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Well, actually I wanted to be a Rockette performing in the parade. Considering my short stature, I don’t quite meet the minimum height requirement to be a Rockette, so that was a bust. But I still wanted to see it in real life, and this year my amended dream came true and we were two of the best performing attendees at the parade! You know, we were really good at watching (and squeeling with glee....me, not Dan, ha).

Now, it’s not as easy to do as we thought it would be. We figured we’d just walk across the park to Central Park West and wander until we found a spot we liked (at 6:00 a.m., by the way). By the time we got there, we realized our 5:00 a.m. dragging our tooshies out of bed wasn’t early enough; there was already a throng of people crowding the streets. Plus, they had set up fences everywhere and were herding people like cattle. We ended up funneling into a dead end single block that was already four people deep, outfitted with our chairs which were now pretty useless with the lack of room on the sidewalk.

BUT, we were there and we could actually see pretty well! We were at the very beginning of the parade so all of the participants were fresh and chipper (and cold, it was about 30 degrees and a little windy). We were slowly able to work our way up to the street inch by inch and I got some pretty cool pics. Instead of boring you with more talk, I’ll just post some pics!

P.S. The most famous person in the parade is at the very end of this post. Watch the video to find out who it is!

Our view of the street

Happy Turkey Day!

Snoopy

Jimmy Fallon and the Sesame Street gang

Hello Kitty

Julius the Monkey

The Kool-Aid Man - Oh yeah!

Duck Dynasty - sorry it's blurry!

Here comes Sponge Bob Square Pants

I love the way they did his feet!

Toothless - he was a BIG balloon!

The Wizard of Oz - that's a real guy in the basket!

His Spidey sense was telling him he was headed into the trees...

there was a blast of wind as he went by :) Every time a

balloon started to sway, the crowd would yell "oh no!"

Giant police officer

Pikachu

Cute Pillsbury Dough Boy - I love his arms, he looks very happy!

Close up!

Pillsbury Dough buns.....teehee!

Honestly I don't have a clue who this is, but it's cute.

Buzz Lightyear - don't you love how cool his clear helmet is?

Yes, Virginia, Santa is on his way

Elf on the Shelf - lots of comments in the crowd about his squatting position...

Happy Hanukkah!

The Smurfs

Papa Smurf

Macy's Elves all in a cute little row

Me and an elf...at this point my feet and fingers were numb!

And here is the guest of honor!!!!
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Farewell, parade! See you next year!

I hope you all had a warm and wonderful gathering with friends and/or family during your Thanksgiving holiday!

Thanks for stopping by!

Carole