Good Thanksgiving, Good NYC

I elected to hang on the east coast for Thanksgiving weekend, rather than fly back home. I took the train down to NYC to hang with Becca's family Wednesday night. Thursday morning I got to go to the Thanksgiving Day Parade with her family. It was a ton of fun. They set up two ladders and a plank of wood every year in order to see over the crowds. I can't say the parade was all that exciting, but it was pretty fun every time a new balloon came into view and the whole crowd cheered. It also helped that it was about 50 degrees that morning.
Thanksgiving dinner Thursday night was easily the biggest family meal I've ever been a part of. We ate at Becca's Aunt Bobbi and Uncle Steve's house and there were forty people there. It was a bit overwhelming but a lot of fun. The meal culminated with Becca's cousins re-enacting the Thanksgiving story. Here's cousin Nate on the table being a stalk of corn:


Friday Becca and I headed to NYC and walked all over town. One stop was a crazy new building I'd read about on Bond street near The Village. Dan and Becca and I pose for a self portrait in front of the modern architecture:

The brunch place we ate at that morning had a huge mural of Justin Timberlake on the wall of the bathroom...

And one more cool photo from the trip. We stopped by a rice pudding place in Soho. Here's the sign from the window: