Happy Thanksgiving!

Americans love a good parade, don't they? And no city has more parades than New York. And of course, Thanksgiving is no different with the much anticipated, mass-ornamental and highly commercial M@$%'s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Normally, we can get "enough" of a glimpse from our window, but since the weather is so gorgeous today, we decided to take a good look from the crowded street. Interestingly, it was a German-American named Anthony Frederick Sarg who invented the popular helium-filled balloons for this parade, first introducing them in 1928. Back then, they were mostly animals and up to 125 feet (40 meters) long. Anyway, enjoy the day with friends and family. And please also give some thanks to Native Americans who, after all, fed the first white settlers here and have lost so much of their land, culture and way of life since.