Big City Little Dog: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

There is nothing more American that waking up on Thanksgiving morning and watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. My mom has always been fascinated about the parade, still wondering if it's connected to her devotion to shopping at Macy's as well. So she came out to New York to make sure she had front row tickets to the most famous (Rose comes in a close second) parade in the US. I am guessing Mardi Gras has dibs on the most famous parade in the world, but that's a separate debate.

The night before we went out to see the balloons getting inflated so we got a sneak preview of what size the balloons were.

We had to get up at 5 o'clock the morning of the parade and find a spot by 6 am. The parade didn't start till 9, so we had 3 hours to sit around. We all got up, got a quick bite to eat and took a cab over to 57th and 7th ave. 2 reasons why we picked this spot.
1. It was right near food options
2. Many streets were closed to traffic because of the parade except for this one.

So the 3 of us find out spot at the corner. It was a great unobstructed spot where we could see up and down the street. We were right at the corner so we had a very good viewing angle.

We bundled up pretty well in the morning but it was around 30 degrees with a colder wind chill.

As you can tell the whole parade route was packed with at least 5-10 people deep waiting for a view.

I guess it always starts with the Macy's Parade Band.

This was Sonic's first Parade and he got to be the first one!

Homestead High School from Cupertino California!

My friend Lane couches the drum line.

Hi Lane! Apparently a student couldn't handle the pressure so Lane had to carry his drum for a portion of the parade.

Kinda weird seeing Buzz Lightyear without his friend Woody.

The Pillsbury Dough Boy made an appearance.

Chester did not make the parade, he would have been happy to see dogs well represented.

Who doesn't like the Kool Aid Guy?

Is Sponge Bob still popular?

Once the parade started we felt a little more lively, but we started loosing feeling to our extremities at this point. My finger seriously swelled to twice its size and I really thought it had to get amputated. And I couldn't walk as my del were frozen.