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My First Macy’s Parade… Had to be on a Day of Record-Low Temperature
Why would you want to see a bunch of giant balloons when it’s -6°C outside? It’s the silent struggle of the newcomer in New York who wants to see it all.
From the diaries of #LivingInNYC and #studentlife on my IG:
When you are not from the U.S., the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade is one of those events you have probably only seen on TV or movies. As you grow up and get the chance to visit the city where it takes place, you wonder what it’s really like.
I’m sure most New Yorkers are fed up with the TV coverage and the road blocks caused by this parade, just as much as they hate going to Times Square for whatever reason other than shopping or work. For whatever reason at all.
But you’re a newcomer in New York City, and it’s not just any other parade. It’s like this bizarre, new experience you get to cross from the checklist of “things people make a big fuss about that I want to see one day.”
As it happens with any other parade, and if you like parades at all, enjoying it depends on where you are in the parade route and what time you arrive there. You’d want to get a good spot and do what social conventions mandate nowadays: to…
