Turkey Day

I had a great Thanksgiving; I have a pretty small family to begin with but it was just my parents, brother, and I this year so it was quite an intimate gathering!

I started out the day with a 3.3 mile run down 1st Avenue and back up 2nd Avenue. As I expected, my Garmin didn’t want to cooperate with all the big buildings so I just used it for the timer and finished just under 35 minutes. After a shower and breakfast I headed out to start my day!

I feel so blessed to live right in NYC…I’ve gotten to do some pretty cool things in the almost year I have been here and I started off Thanksgiving morning with a trip to watch some of the Macy’s Parade!

The route was over on the west side so I walked across town and spent an hour watching floats and balloons go by at 48th St. and 7th Ave. I only had my cellphone but I got some cool pics:

After watching some of the parade, I took the train up to CT. and relaxed for a few hours while dinner was cooking.

We did something a little unusual…chicken instead of turkey! We didn’t need a big bird with just 4 of us and we all prefer chicken to turkey so we figured why not? The rest of dinner was traditional – mashed potatoes, stuffing, squash, green beans, cranberry sauce. Except for the cranberry sauce (canned…my favorite…not joking!), all the recipes were from Cooks Illustrated and came out fabulous! My parents did a great job cooking.

While I only had one plate of food, it was overflowing and afterwards I needed a quick cat nap to recover. My family watched a cute movie, 500 Days of Summer and ate dessert a short time later. My mom made pumpkin cheesecake bars and I contributed Maple Pecan Bites.Yum.

After heading to bed early, I woke up at 4:30AM unable to go back to sleep. The rest of my family was up by 6:15 or so and my mom and I headed to the mall shortly after 7.

Now if you know me, I do not like crowds much and  can get a little anxious…but this year I really wanted to do a little Black Friday shopping…for myself! I had good luck at Express, NY&Co, Victoria’s Secret, and Ann Taylor. I was done by 9:30. Tons of stores were having everything 40, 50, 60% off and I couldn’t pass it up! It really wasn’t too crowded and I ended the morning a happy camper. Now it’s time to shop for everyone else!

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