Turkey Day in the Big Apple

What an incredible Thanksgiving we experienced this year!!! By far, this has been my favourite Thanksgiving. The main part of our trip to New York City was to see the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. We arrived early in the morning after our 10 minute train ride from New Jersey. It was an awesome beginning to the day because it was Tyler's very first time on a real moving train, so you can imagine his excitement. After a short walk we decided to see the parade in Times Square. We couldn't have picked a better place. There was all kinds of huge screens to help keep Tyler entertained while waiting for the parade to start. The parade was incredible!!! It was hard to believe the parade we watched on television for so many years, was happening right in front of our eyes. It was so much fun being part of the crowd also experiencing the magic of the parade. There were so many awesome floats with celebrities that we had no clue who they were, except for the people from Sesame Street which was really cool. Tyler's favourite balloon was Spider Man. Once the parade was over, we had the whole day for sightseeing. New York City was more than we ever imagined. There is just so much to see and do there. It is really overwhelming. The city was even more amazing because most of the buildings were decorated for Christmas. We walked on Broadway, 5th Ave, and Central Park. We walked through out the city to see as much as we could see with a 3 year old in a stroller. Then we decided it would be much more fun and we would see a whole lot more on a double decker tour bus. Tyler really enjoyed this. We got off the bus and walked to Ground Zero to see them reconstruct the new building and then we walked to Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty. Tyler was starting to get tired soon after, so we got back on the double decker and proceeded with our tour. It wasn't long, however before Tyler fell fast asleep. We enjoyed some more amazing sites on the bus and then got off to get something to eat. By this time it was dinner time and since it was Thanksgiving, we found this great restaurant that offered a four course turkey dinner. The restaurant was called 'Don't Tell Mama' and the food was delicious!!! The first course was a salad with walnuts, chocolate and cherry sauce with little cut up beets with a sprinkle of cinnamon. It was the most tastiest salad I've ever eaten. Next was gelato to clean our taste palate, followed by an amazing turkey dinner and then an scrumptious piece of pumpkin pie. The dinner also came with a glass of wine. We were quite stuffed when we finished and the combination of eating so much and our early morning, busy day we were quite tired. However we still had 2 hours before our train back to the hotel. So we took our time walking back to the Grand Central Station and took in some more sights with lots of pretty lights. Times Square was awesome all lite up at night. We also walked by the Empire State Building, which was also decked out for Thanksgiving. Our trip was complete when we headed over to Macy's to show Tyler the store windows all set for Christmas. This trip to NYC was absolutely incredible. What wonderful memories were made and we are so thankful that we could be together this year.