Thanksgivukkah!

Happy Thanksgiving!  Shortcake started the day very early in the morning.  She had volunteered to help out with the parade.  At 5am.  It was 20 degrees Fahrenheit.  And she was outside.  Which is why she looked like this:

What you can't see, is that underneath her jeans she is wearing her elf socks.  Because she forgot her long underwear at the North Pole.  Rookie mistake, Shortcake.  Rookie mistake.

After Shortcake spent three hours standing outside in the cold pointing people in the right direction and occasionally doing the hokey pokey (and witnessing a New York sunrise, which is a rare occasion since Shortcake tries NOT to be awake before the sun), she went home.  She did not watch the parade.  She slept. 

After a refreshing nap, Shortcake prepared to go to her friend's house for her very first Thanksgivukkah.  Hanukkah was so early this year that it landed on Thanksgiving.  This will not happen again for 70,000 years or something, and it is very doubtful that Shortcake will be alive to see it.  Or that there will still be Thanksgiving in 70,000 years.  Hanukkah will probably still be around.  Judaism is a very persistent religion.  The point is that while Shortcake has celebrated many an American Thanksgiving, she has never celebrated Hanukkah or watched while the candles were lit on the menorah.  She was very excited to broaden her cultural horizons.

That's Shortcake and her friend Shiraz on the second night of Hanukkah.