Macy's Parade Balloon Inflation
This year we went the day before Thanksgiving to see the Parade Balloons being inflated. It's free to go, but you have to enter at a particular place and deal with huge crowds. The first few balloons we saw: Kung Fu Panda's ass: I liked seeing how many sandbags it took to stabilize the balloons: Here's a look up the street: Here's the head of the Kung Fu Panda balloon, and a small vehicle for size comparison: A bunch of smaller round balloons: Here some workers are securing SpongeBob Squarepants. I did notice that his arm was oddly bent by the straps, and still kind of bent the next day: The sidewalks the crowd walked on surround the Natural History Museum. There were big floodlights set up so that the balloons could be easily seen. Kool-Aid Man was being moved to a new position as we walked by, at first we thought he was deflating. Erin took this picture of a balloon dog's butt. All the