Thanksgiving!!!! My sincerest apologies for the lack of posts this past month. The holiday season has been quite hectic. Finally getting around to telling you guys all the fun we had on thanksgiving. And here it goes......... My work is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. So, I figured I'd be working on thanksgiving. But by some grace of god I had the day off! Except one thing...I had to work until 430am Thanksgiving morning. Talk about rough. Especially cause Bryan, Jeannine and Mike were meeting me at my apartment at 6am to go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. So yea, the picture above is Jeannine and I, and me being on about 45 minutes of sleep. Those bags under my eyes are not so sexy.

Getting there was madness. There were people everywhere, who had even gotten there hours before we did to get a spot up front. The parade itself went along for miles, and took about two full hours.

It's so much different seeing the parade in person because the balloons are absolutely huge. I don't remember if they show it on tv or not, but it takes upwards to 50 people to hold these balloons from blowing away. Some of them we thought were GOING to blow away. In person you can also see all the patches and flaws in them, but some of them are years and years old.

Bryan and I

It was acutally kinda cute hearing the anticipation of the kids on which balloon was going to come up next. "OH MY GOD MOM IT'S BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!!!"

After the parade was over, we said goodbye to Jeannine and Mike who were going to Mike's parents house for dinner in Nutley, NJ. Bryan and I had done a ton of grocery shopping the prior days and had a few hours of dinner preparation ahead of us. (Keep in mind I'm still running on 45 minutes of sleep...) We take the train up to his apartment in Queens, pour ourselves a glass of much deserved champagne, and snack on some cheese and crackers. My friend Tasha and her boyfriend Leo sent me a late text telling me they were joining us for Thanksgiving dinner so Bryan and I went in the kitchen and starting cooking up a freakin' storm. I took a 20 minute power nap and they arrived.

We kept a pretty tradional thanksgiving menu, with the exception of our two tofurkeys.... :) We made a green bean casserole, homemade cranberry juice with fresh orange zest, potatoes, carrots, rice, homemade mash potatoes, stuffing and gravy.

Tasha and Leo joined us and it was very nice. It was different not being home with my family but I think we did a great job with dinner, and I had amazing company to share it with. :-)