We decided that while we had the opportunity, we went to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This also meant that we would miss the holiday with our family. We missed seeing everyone and will see everyone soon.
We absolutely had a marvelous time. We stayed in NYC on Wednesday night, so we could get up bright and early to get a good spot. NYC is truly the city that never sleeps, just ask Madison. We were all up early since traffic, firetrucks, police cars, etc go all night. Madison decided that the city would not be a good place to live, since it "kept waking her up". We left our hotel about 6:30am and headed to up to Central Park West to find a spot(so did everyone else). Luckily our friends who we were going to try to meet up with to watch the parade called and said they had a curb side seat that they found. The other little boy in the pictures is Jayden.
For the next 2.5 hours, the four adults struggled to keep the 3 children entertained with whatever we could find. Luckily (or not) there were two ladies next to us that decided to bring their cat to the parade to see the balloons. That was enough entertainment to keep the adults laughing all morning and the kids liked playing with the cat. Once the parade started Logan and Madison watched every single act that came down the street.
As you can see in the pictures, Logan and Jayden attracted lots of attention from the parade participants, who always came over to say, Hi. Logan is now speaking and responding to people when they speak to him, so he gave High Fives, said Happy Thanksgiving, and whatever else he could think of at that point in time.
The highlight for Madison was definitely Mylie Cyrus and the balloons. Logan loved it all and he would dance when the bands came by. The parade is definitely for all ages, since there were acts that the kids did not know that the adults loved, such as the Smurfs, Kermit the Frog, and James Taylor. While Madison had to explain to us and the adults around us, who some of the other acts were.
