Every year on Thanksgiving day in New York, Macy's hosts a street parade. The parade starts at the Natural History Museum on the Upper West side and works its way down to their store on 34th street. There are famous performers and massive balloons of well loved characters such as Snoopy and ...... It is a lot of fun and it is televised around the world (my nieces watched it in Australia).
Because of the size of the balloons, the organisers need to start inflating them the night before and it has now become a New York event to wrap yourself up in warm gear and go out and see the inflation of the balloons. It's definitely a fun way to start the holiday period. But like everything else in New York, the crowds are massive so if you happen to be in NYC around this time and want to check it out, allow yourself a lot of time.
The streets open for you to view the balloons being inflated at 5pm. The only traffic that is allowed around the Natural History Museum at this time is walking traffic, cars and trucks are diverted. It is a lot of fun trying to guess what each balloon is.
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| Spiderman |
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| Kermit the Frog - a popular balloon |
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| Energizer Bunny |
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| Snoopy - another popular balloon |
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| This is a mobile platform that the police use to monitor the crowd. Pretty cool huh! |
There were quite a few balloons I have only showed you a couple of the real famous ones.
I really enjoyed myself and best of all it is a free event!
