Instructions unclear , ate Papi and fucked actual thanksgiving turkey . <| sep |> When I was in 10 th grade , my marching band got to participate in the Hollywood Christmas Parade , which films in Hollywood , on Thanksgiving . It airs live locally , and then it airs nationally at Christmas , I think . Anyway , so having Thanksgiving dinner with 240 other people , I can ' t remember if this was before or after the parade , was pretty interesting . Everybody got semidressed up , and we had a buffet . I had a grey sweater and a silk tie that was red and had goldembroided pandas on it , and someone observed I looked like a Hogwarts student , so I spoke with a British accent most of the diner . And this isn ' t confined to Thanksgiving , but that whole trip was nuts . They scheduled us to go to Six Flags for the first half of Thanksgiving you know , before the parade , which was 5 miles long btw and we went to Universal Studios either Friday or Saturday . One girl had broken her toe at some point during the trip but before the parade so got wheeled the whole way in a wheelchair by a chaperone . The two theme parks plus all the other stuff we did that went mostly unchaperoned led to almost everyone getting dehydrated and by the end of the trip , at least 14 of the kids were sick . And reportedly , none of us showed up to school that following Monday . Our flight got in at like 3 am on Monday so my mom was fine with me skipping that day to sleep , and apparently all but like 2 of the band kids did the same .