Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

On Thanksgiving Day, we left my brother RJ's house at about 5:30 and took the train to Grand Central Station.



We arrived into the city around 8:00 and took a taxi to Central Park and walked through the park to the other side. We were almost immediately disappointed because there were so many people. And not just people, people on ladders! We knew it would be very difficult to see well, but we were thankful that the weather was good...no snow, sun shining and about mid 40's. So we waited. People were pushing and making excuses about why they needed to move up closer! It was amazing how many people had "family" that was already there that they needed to meet up with.
This is how we started out.
Jonathan was in this great backpack carrier that we got on Craigslist for a steal!

The parade started a few blocks down from where we were and as soon as it got to us, the barriers on the sidewalks were opened and everyone who was crowded in, slowly and pretty calmly, moved down along the parade street. We were then about 3 people back from the street! It was amazing!
Thanksgiving float- Now you can tell we got very close. It was so worth it to go!

Smurf

Georgia Tech Marching Band

Miley Cyrus

Dora

Santa's float

RJ, Dad, Mom, Ashley, Nathan, Jonathan, Becky & Aunt Cokie

We walked around the city afterward. It was such a beautiful day! It really couldn't have been more perfect!
Jonathan was exhausted! He was excellent, though! He was so easy going and just went with the flow!
Here he is posing in Aunt Cokie's hat on the train ride home.
Possibly, the best part of the entire day was that Thanksgiving dinner was waiting for us when we got home. My mom cooked the entire thing the day before. She heated it up when we got there and we devoured it! It was delicious.
We also celebrated Jonathan's birthday with the Nobles side of the family. Uncle Ron got the cake for him. You can also see the sports gift he got for Jonathan. Jonathan loves it!
Jonathan did great with the cake, but Grandpa was worried about him when he started wiping the frosting in his eyes!

I think everyone was in bed by 8:30! It was a wonderful Thanksgiving!