Thursday, November 27, 2014

The Thanksgiving Day Parade

The Thanksgiving Day Parade: probably the most famous parade in America. Could be the most famous parade in the whole world. It is huge, perfectly organized and a total joy to watch. Watching it on TV is nowhere near the reality of being there. The parade always kicks off at 9:00 AM and regardless of the weather or crowds or anything else that could get in the way, in ends with Santa in front of Macy's at 12:00 Noon. After all, it is live TV. I have been fortunate to be at the parade as an Auxiliary Police Officer. That means I get to be right out there on the street as it passes. About the only downside is that each year I have absolutely no idea of who most of the 'stars' on the floats are. One year the Beach Boys were there. I walked out to their float and thanked them for finally being a group that recognized. They were nice enough to laugh. This year KISS was there, so I got to say hello to someone else. One of them was a camper of mine when I was a summer camp counselor. That's a whole other story. Anyway, I don't know what this balloon is supposed to be, but it reminds me of one of my elementary school teachers.




And this is me at work at the parade, protecting America:


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

As always Maury, working hard. I'm glad you would never take advantage of such an opportunity to have your photo taken with a bevy of attractive women. Botsko

20 Capt said...

The bevy of beauties looked better in person. I wish I could say that Maury looks better in person.