In my family alone, 12 of us have marched in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade -- either with their HS band, their hula halau, or with Drill Team Hawai`i. I danced my way down in 1993 in a grass skirt and thermal underwear!

For a long time it was the same Hawai`i high schools marching in the parade because we only have a few here that have a large marching bands. This year is the first year Hawai`i will have an All-Star Marching Band. 380 members, 41 public and private schools represented from 4 islands...they'll be the largest marching band there on Thursday!

This year we'll be cheering on #4 niece and #13 of our clan marching in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- Maegan was even featured in the newspaper this morning modeling their parade costume!