We Stuff Thanksgiving
This was the day that brought us here: Thanksgiving. We built this vacation around the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade . I've been watching that parade since I was a little girl and always wanted to go. When I realized that one could get grandstand tickets through online charity auctions, it was all over but the shouting. In the end, a Brooklyn public school got a nice return on its four grandstand seats, and we got to get up at 5:30 am on Thanksgiving morning. By about 6:20, as this photo reflects, everyone was up and sunshiney ... okay, they were up and dressed. Good enough. We were literally the only people in the subway station that early, but by the time the train came, we had been joined by a few others who were clearly parade goers (revealed by their lawn chairs). The kids had perked up a bit on the walk, probably because it was freezing cold, and contrary to all weather reports that had predicted a dry Thanksgiving, it was also d...