Floats, Football, and Food

Written by Steph H.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and with that comes older floats that are always a  hit, new floats, including one designed by local eighth grader Robin Ryce, and of course, Santa Clause. Among the parade will be clowns, horses, the "big-heads", and local marching bands. Ashanti will make an appearance in the parade along with several actors and athletes, including Olympic soccer gold medalist Alex Morgan. There will be the turkey trot as there has been for the last 30 years.

The Thanksgiving day parade in Detroit is in its 86th year of making Thanksgiving morning fun, however we all know the highlights of the day are always the food and the football! This year the Lions will be playing the Houston Texans; this will be Houston's first Thanksgiving Day football game. Thanksgiving football has also been a tradition in Detroit since 1934. Dallas is another city where thanksgiving football games are a tradition; Dallas will be playing Washington in Dallas. Growing up I remember going to the Thanksgiving day games when the Lions played at the Silverdome in Pontiac.

After all is said and done, all the football is over, and all the food is gone, we can still look around and see all we should be thankful for. Our mother, our father, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, and our grandparents. We should be thankful for our health and for even waking up this morning. We should be thankful for our lives just the way they are; remember, someone always has it worse. We need to be thankful for those men and women who are sacrificing their lives to fight for our freedom.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.