thankfully

We survived our first US Thanksgiving. To turkeys were harmed during the celebration. Of sorts. In our quest to use the year we live on Manhattan to the fullest, we decided to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving parade. Except not really waking up before 6 am, and hanging in the 3-million crowd in order to freeze for several hours. No, D and I went to see the giant balloons laying on the ground around the Natural history museum on Wednesday evening. And the next morning slept till 10.30 am, which made the day for me a resounding success from the very beginning. We watched some parade on TV, then we walked a bit on an empty playground, then it was evening already...
the highlight of the evening was our first ever watching of Miyazaki movie – Ponyo. D was very happy and understood all the important parts. He reached the age when magical transformations are totally normal – why, he turns into a moose every day now! Or in a fox! - so fish-turned girl- made a perfect sense to him.
And today we visited the real puppet theatre! Cuz huge crowds and crazy sales are not my kind of fun (not that I don't like discounts and low prices, but the frenzy scares me).

I haven't watched "Pangs", but I don't have to - it was on a constant rerun in my head lately ;)