Thanksgiving Day Parade

Detroit is known for many things, most less than favorable, however there are some positives, such as the Thanksgiving Day Parade, the second oldest in the country. This must be experienced, so we set out early on Thursday morning, before the sun rose, as the snow fell to take part in the festivities.
Fortunately, we found a fantastic parking spot not far from the parade route and sat in our car until just before the parade started to stay warm, the snow was falling quite heavily by the time we got out of the car and marched over to Woodward Avenue. Our fortune followed us, we got 'front row seats' at an intersection and settled on the reflective insulation mat.
The poor Uncle Sam balloon was dragging, not enough hot air - maybe a political statement? Kermit on the other hand was flying high. We had several balloon teams spin their balloons right in front of us as the audience cheered. The paper-mache heads are for many synonymous with this parade, and their friendly smiles brought joy to even the coldest spectator. We laughed and giggled, and the boys schemed how to replicate the motorized Lazy-boy and the Briefcase Drill team was too funny for words - men in black, choreographically moving their briefcases. As soon as Santa passed by we headed back to our car, cranked the heater up high and settled in for the ride back to the burbs - Detroit thank you for the fun!

love the big head behind the boys..... looks like he is going to tell Noah something"-)