Ok, just a quick observation, but I would say that coming home for Thanksgiving is necessary travel. This speaks volumes about many things, however that is for another entry.

Today as a Christmas gift, I took my folks to the Radio City Music Spectacular. I let them pick the show and this was their choice. Things were going as well as could be expected since we were seeing the 10:00 am show and it was a fairly cold day to be walking. We sat down in our seats and the show was going well until the appearance of the... MIDGETS!!! It never occurred to me in a thousand years that midgets would be in the show. I knew it was a Christmas show, thereby the possibility of elves--but c'mon, who would think midgets and the Rockettes would share a stage. It's kinds cruel if you think about it. Now, not only did these midgets have a speaking roles--they danced. There is something particularly disturbing about midgets shaking their "tail feathers" so to speak.

In addition to dancing, they put the midgets in snowmen costumes. Why they needed snowdwarves is anyone's guess. What was even weirder about the snowdwarves was they were on ice -- during the show they have a miniature skating rink where a regular sized couple skates a routine. So these snowdwarves are on ice -- and I swear they were not on skates. My mom has now weighed in and says she too thinks they were skateless. My dad says that it may be physically impossible for midgets to ice skate. (Note to Joe: check with the Publix midget about this.) So there were slip sliding snowdwarves.

Anyway, besides my tiny friends, the show was really pretty enjoyable. The living nativity was pretty cool, and I liked it even better when I found out that the animals stay at Radio City and get walked early mornings in Rockefeller Center.