Plymouth Thanksgiving Parade

We decided not to go to Florida for Thanksgiving this year.  With Natalie in first grade, we didn't want her to miss a bunch of school.  And since Todd got furloughed earlier this year, it just didn't make a lot of financial sense to spend a ton of money to get down to Florida for what basically amounts to a long weekend.  We're hoping to go in the spring or summer of 2014. 

Instead, we stuck close to home and were able to go to the Plymouth "America's Hometown" Thanksgiving parade.  It's billed as the nations "second best parade."  I don't know why, but that makes me laugh!

Here's Natalie and Grant waiting with Bean for the parade to start. It was a really cold day but the rain held off!  Later, KK and Seth joined us too.

The very start of the parade.  The Pilgrim's return to their hometown.

There were some really neat floats like this one above of the Mayflower.  It actually rocked back and forth which was pretty cool.

 Grant really thought all of the cars were super cool, but really?  Whoopi Goldberg? I don't get it!

 I think Natalie must have taken this picture.  Where is she???  Grant, Mommy and Daddy enjoying the parade.

Oh wait, there she is.  Natalie looking cute as one of the floats goes by.  This float was a "before and after" showing what a classroom looked like during days past, and what a classroom looks like in the present.

They have this massive turkey float that goes by, but they have to stop and pull it's head down to make sure it can get under all of the power lines!

The Budweiser Clydesdales are always a big hit.  It always surprises me how big they are!  I love the little Dalmatian too.  He's so cute in all of their commercials.

There was a nice tribute to the victims of the Marathon bombing too.  It was a huge float with the Boston skyline and this was on the back of it.

Steve Horgan, the bullpen cop from the World Series was a part of the parade too!  Here is his with his hands in the air, just like he did after David Ortiz hit a grand slam in Game 1 of the ALCS vs. Detroit. 

This was the actual picture from the game. 

And of course, last but certainly not least was the Big Man himself.  Santa Claus.  Natalie and Grant were jumping with excitement.  It was another successful parade - and I think the kids enjoyed it much more than they did in 2009 (when Grant was only about 4 weeks old!)