chobit Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 This may be a little early for you groovy American like people, but Canaidian Thanksgiving was this weekend. Thanksgiving is a time for our family to get together and argue a lot.About everything.For a long period of time.About who made the best pie,who has the nicest outfit,who has the prettiest boyfriend/girlfriend,who can eat the most amount of turkey,who can eat the least amount of turkey,how much everyone is making per year,ect. As you can see,theres not a lot of thanking going on.I don't even know how Thanksgiving was created. What do you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChibiHorsewoman Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 [color=darkviolet]What do we do?? Good wquestion. For my family it's a day to get my dad and my papa home from deer hunting for one day, New York State's Deer season starts about the same time as America's Thanks Giving..okay a week before but hey, that's a state wide holiday. When I was in college people would take the day off from classes to go shoot oscieonus Virginianus (I think I got the term correctly spelled) or white tailed deer. But anyways, for my non hunting part of the family the day starts the night before because we have to go over to my Aunt Kathy's house and help her figure out how to cook the turkey (it used to be my mama and papa's house, but that was about 10 years ago before they moved to a smaller house) and make the stuffing. My aunt Kathy is smart and everything, but she has trouble doing the cooking thing. We stay there until about 10:30 then go back to our houses to get ready to come back the following morning. Thanks Giving day we sit around waiting for the food to cook and watch football. Maybe play a video game if you're my only cousin on my mom's side or read a book if you're me. Or perhaps, if you're my daughter this year you'll fill up a diaper or cry until I feed you. Then we eat. After eatting we get out the board games. My aunt MArty jokes that she doesn't want to play against me because I always win at TriBond, so she's usually on my team. We do other games as well. By then it's a repeat of Christmas day. Next year Lincoln gets to join in on the festivities. I still say though that the most memorable Thanksgiving was my first one in Texas (more accurately my only one in TExas) Lincoln and I made pot roast and the went over to a friend of and ex friend's apartment got a bit plastered and watched some really bad porn. Lord I appologize![/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soliel Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 [COLOR=GREEN]Thanksgiving, well, what I end up doing on this day depends on whether I'm at my mom's house or my dad's (yes, my parents are divorced, can I continue, please). Since it seems most likely that I'll be spending the day at my dad's house this year, I'll decribe how Thanksgiving goes there. First, my dad gets up early to start cooking the turkey; he "deep fry"s it, so to speak, by cooking it in a large boiler-type pot and burner (for those of you from the south, it's the same thing you boil crawfish in) filled with cooking oil, I think. Anyways, my youngest brother, whoes 10, is the next one up, and he in turn wakes everyone else up, as usual. I get up from the guest bedroom, since I always have to give up my bedroom for guests, most likely someone from my step-mom's side of the family. Well, as the day progresses, my step-mom gets to work cooking the rest of the meal, the adults flip the TV back and forth between football games and the Macey's Thanksgiving day parade, all while my brothers and I, and any cousins who my be with us, are up in my middle brother's, whose 16, room playing or watching video games. Then the adults call us down for dinner, which isn't exactly a traditional, sit down, meal. Rather, everyone fills up their plate with whatever they want, then goes back to whatever they were doing before. So that's about it for what my family does. I'm kind of excited about Thanksgiving this year. This is because that week is my first break from school and I'll get to go home after being up at college for two and a half months.[/COLOR] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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