The Day Pigs Flew, Otherwise Known As The Thanksgiving I Went To The Parade.

Thanksgiving weekend- One of the best of the year, I say.  I love it.  Here's what I did:

Thanksgiving prep with Rachel Wednesday night.  She is a machine, with her rolls and pie making skills.  It was awesome.  I just provided manual labor.

I met up with some other friends to go see the balloons being blown up for the parade.   However, I have to say it was freezing and raining and muddy and crowded.  All of the those things= fun factor going way down for me.  It was interesting, but I was glad to go back inside at the end of it.

Selfie fail in front of the iconic Macys star balloons.  

Trying and failing to take a good selfie with my friend Shaun in front of Spiderman.

And then, early the next morning, I got up to do something that I kind of never had the inclination to do.  I went to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  

I promise I'm not a total party pooper, but I have never wanted to go bad enough to get up really early, fight the crowds and cold, etc., when I could just watch it on TV.  Besides, my favorite part of the parade is at the beginning when I get to watch Broadway shows perform, and you can't see that live unless you are at the right spot.  

We were up toward the beginning of the parade route, but Central Park.  

Anyway, I defnitely did not get there as early as my friend Kristy, who saved the spot for the rest of us.  But I still got there before 8am, which was early enough for me.

  

It really was fun! The most fun part about it was seeing the marching bands live, and seeing floats go by that I grew up seeing on TV, like Snoopy and Woodstock, Spiderman, Hello Kitty, and other fun ones.  And Turkey Tom!!  The best!

  

I don't know that it will become a yearly tradition for me (I can almost guarantee that it won't) but I am glad I went at least once.  :-)

Ah, yes, then dinner happened at Ros' place.  It was lovely, and my strechy pants came in handy, naturally.  We did pretty well, I think.

I love these ladies that I hosted with.  We took so many pictures, trying to find a good one, and it just never really worked out.  

Jeff was there, of course, as one of my favorite people!

The next day I went on a chilly autumn walk with a couple of friends on the Highline.  I love that place, and I got such a great picture.  Good job, little iPhone.

Saturday I did a concert called Connecting Musicality where I was paired up with an Irish songwriter, Alan Tobin.  We skyped a few times to get to know each other, and then he wrote a song for me that I performed in NYC while he wached via Skype from Dublin.  There was a whole group of us involved.  It was cool, and here is my song, Stars in a Broadway Sky: 

Saturday night ended in a Karaoke party with my friends, where Mala and I threw out some hard core Whitney Houston.  The Greatest Love of All, specifically.  Nailed it, as you can see.  

Thanksgiving weekend was a success, I would say.  On to Christmas, or in other words, I'll sleep in January...