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Brian and I are still at the stage of our relationship where we\u2019re figuring out our holiday traditions. We alternate Thanksgiving and Christmas with each of our families, but since Brian\u2019s parents moved last year, it didn\u2019t seem practical to head to the South for a 4 day vacation.<\/p>\n
Instead, we all (Brian and I, his parents, his brother and sister-in-law) met in New Jersey, to preserve our previous tradition of spending Thanksgiving with Brian\u2019s aunt, uncle and college age cousins.<\/p>\n
It took a little work to figure out how we would spend our time; when my in-laws lived in Connecticut we only spent Thanksgiving dinner in New Jersey. When Brian\u2019s uncle offered to take us to NYC for the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade, I was all over it. Watching the parade every year has been one of my family\u2019s traditions for as long as I can remember and I really wanted to see it in person. <\/p>\n
As expected, the city was fairly chaotic and I\u2019ve seen a lot more of the parade from the comfort of my living room, but I\u2019m really glad we went. The weather was surprisingly comfortable and it was really fun to see the balloons live and in person, despite our distance from the actual parade (we were on a side street) and the occasional pushy person who believed that you could reach the parade simply by pushing through the hundreds of people already on the sidewalk. We skipped out on the very end of the parade in order to make the train back to New Jersey, but I\u2019m already scheming ways to make it back for another parade in a few years.<\/p>\n
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