macy's thanksgiving day parade, 2022 (cheating version)

it was off-year for our about-every-other-year in-person FULL parade attendance (aka: are we willing to tolerate a 4am wake-up call and the remaining hours outside with strangers). the weather was decently nice (low 30's) which made me wonder if i should've just taken a kid or two, but really, i also know not to push my luck. also-also, everyone is still fighting the colds we acquired back in september when school began, so 30 degrees or not, an hour outside for our cliff notes, cheater version of the parade is way better than 8 in camping chairs. there are few places 5/5 travel willingly, and after 3 fights before we even entered the park i remembered you just get what you get sometimes:) plus, i haven't used my camera for non-work purposes since st. lucia, so it was time.

happy thanksgiving from nyc.

macy's thanksgiving day parade & thanksgiving 2018!

thanksgiving this year was so special! i'm usually not the biggest fan of thanksgiving, but i really do love it in the city- probably because the city comes ALIVE with the parade! we have friends who are balloon handlers, and we live so close to the park; the best part is we figured out a loophole 2 years ago where we just walk west on 86th street toward the park (86th is at the end of the parade line-up)- we walk either into the park, or down central park west until we can no longer get past the bands, and call it good! we show up around 9 when the parade begins, see some floats & balloons, then head home to warm up. the best part is we see santa before everyone else. except this year. it was LITERALLY 5 degrees outside, so santa was apparently hiding somewhere. sleigh looked good as ever, though.

(my post last year at the parade, here, and in 2016 when we followed the same game plan as this year, here! for the record, we also announced we were pregnant with harvey on thanksgiving 2016.   wow. that seems a million years ago.)

we spent the rest of our day at our friends, the davises. josh mastered the turkey situation- all the food was SO GOOD!

look at that spread! AND THE TURKEY! it was such a beautiful (+ delicious) meal.

the kids table & THE BABIES! so many perfect little babies!