Pictures from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2008! I again had an All Access pass. The pictures start with the balloon inflation the night before.

I hope I did this right. They're on Flickr but only visible to "Friends and Family"; the above link is supposed to be a "guest pass" thing.

Let me know if you can't see them.

Dad & I went into Manhattan today. We spent the middle of the day on the newly reopened Intrepid, which was cool (and cold) but not worth the $20 admission price (plus $25 for parking). Unless we missed an entire deck of stuff, which is possible ( Read more... )

Tired. I probably shouldn't have worked trivia last night; but last week when I decided to work last night, I had just plunked down $400 on my credit card for plane tickets. And tired was a week away ( Read more... )

It's the caffeine keeping me awake. The can of Coke Pepsi. The other can of Coke Pepsi with the rum in it. And the cup of coffee. By rights, I should have been asleep hours ago ( Read more... )

Safely in NY. The flight took us over Lake Lanier, or what's left of it. I couldn't resist snapping a few pictures. The weather here is very different than back home: low clouds and 50s vs. blue sky and 70s. So I didn't have time to get out the camera to snap pictures of Brooklyn from above. Perfect grids of streets surrounding rows of similar ( Read more... )

Unless something weird comes up on my FBI criminal background check, I'll have Full Access passes to Times Square for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day ParadeMy dad had press passes a couple of years ago through our cousin, who is in charge of the parade. (That's not a typo - my cousin is in charge of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.) He sent Macy's a ( Read more... )

My dad and uncle had press passes to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Meanwhile, I was driving to Charleston because somebody had to move to LA before Thanksgiving and wasn't around to watch my dog. Geez, some people are so selfish ( Read more... )