 “Everyone is thankful for me!” |
 Thanksgiving dinner plate |
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Thanksgiving has come and gone, and now that we’ve recovered, we’re blogging about it. It was a busy week for us. Grandma and Grandpa Hendricks came out to visit from Utah for the week. Since the kids were in school at the beginning of the week, we didn’t get to go far, but we put Grandma and Grandpa to work and kept them busy.
We did go into the city the night before Thanksgiving to see the balloon inflation for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It took us an hour to get to the city, and then an hour and half to fight traffic and find a place where we could park. We ended up parking down near Columbus Circle and taking the subway back up to 81st St. It seems like everyone else had the same idea we did, and since we got there late we were out of luck. It was cold and crowded, but the kids had fun. We followed it up with a trip to an authentic NYC Chinese restaurant.
Thanksgiving Day was laid back. We didn’t go in for the parade because seeing the balloons was bad enough. Besides, you can watch the parade in HD and be warm at home. We decided to smoke a turkey on the grill again this year, and Grandma cooked another turkey in the oven. With all the side dishes, we had plenty of food!
We have a bunch of photos we’ve posted from our Thanksgiving exploits. You can see them by clicking here.
Comments on: "After Thanksgiving post" (2)
Good call on not going to the parade… not because of the cold… it’s actually quite a hot and cramped experience… we did it once and were very glad that we were of adult height with adult elbows to claim our ‘space’… a hotel room on the route would be the only way we would go back
Great photos! Love the pie too
We had so much fun watching your vidoes and concerts and looking at the pictures today. Love you. grandpa and grandma.