Flashback Post: Thanksgiving Weekend

December 14th, 2008

Matthew’s dad and his little sister Jaime came to visit for Thanksgiving. Since they have been here so many times before we didn’t feel the need to do too many touristy things, which was nice. It probably would have been smart to plan SOMETHING though because we ended up staying up too late every night and then not getting going till about noon every day. Whatevs, we were on West Coast time.

We knew there was no way that we were going to the parade but thought it would be kind of fun to watch them blow up the balloons the night before. Matthew and I went years ago, before it was a “thing” but now its definitely a THING. 

Yeah there were signs. Lots and lots of them. It was totally insane. Adam met us there and we really couldn’t stop obsessing over the fact that there were still thousands of people there when we rolled through the barricades at 9:47pm. I think they estimated 350,000 people came. 

It was still pretty cool. 

We couldn’t help but notice that the balloons were placed Head to Toe (Head to Butt) and the banter became a bit less family-friendly. It was so obvious it would have been more uncomfortable NOT to mention that Ronald McDonald wasn’t sniffing someone’s tush. 

Slightly more well behaved balloons included Buzz

and Dora

The real reason why its fun to go is to see how big these things actually are, and how they get them in the air. 

Obligatory “We were really there” shot of the night:

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