Posts Tagged ‘Santa Claus’
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Posted on: December 22, 2010
Thought I’d help you awaken the Christmas Spirit lying dormant deep deep inside you. This is my favorite Christmas hymn (as you know) and after seeing this I finally started feeling Christmas (and homesick).
Can you imagine our very own Kim singing this in a Christmas choir? Not! Hahaha…
Now let me jolt you with some Christmas Rock (thanks to Train’s Shaking Up Christmas) with this cool Coca-Cola Snow Globe commercial. Thought it was cute. If only Santa could “shake” us into feeling the Christmas spirit like we did when we were children.
So are you feeling it now?
As my Thanksgiving Chef has since moved to London (boohoo!), I thought this year would be a great time to brave the cold and watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. So when wonder-twin Addie suggested we go, I jumped at the chance. One of the things I love about hanging with the Wonder Twins is that they’ve lived here all their lives and they are still happy to do tourist-y activities like watching the parade. Simple stuff.
And so we hatched this grand plan to meet at 9 am somewhere along Central Park West to catch the front end of the parade. So how did it go? Let’s put it this way, I’d give us an A for planning and an F for execution. We didn’t catch the front end of the parade, we caught the tail end! We missed Kylie, Kanye and all the other celebs on floats. But I got to see the tail end up close and it was well worth it. So here are some shots I took of the parade. These photos are a tad better than my fight photos.
Distant photo of Santa taken from Columbus Circle
Smurf shot from Columbus Circle
A better shot from 57th Street and 7th Avenue. Poor Smurf is being poked by that lamp post!
Here is a passing float of the ice queen
Another float of what looks like carolers to me
Little girl on her way to the post office to mail her letter to Santa
I don't know what these 3 are, but they look like man-fairies to me
Man-fairies up close
And who do we find at the very end of the parade?
Santa and Mrs. Claus!!!
This year has been a very very blessed year for you and me, VERY. There is AT LEAST 365 things to be thankful for. And on top of all that, I’m thankful for the Thanksgiving parade : ) Wish you were here!
