Where you going? Where you eating? Got any special family traditions you would like to share with us? Lets get in the spirit of the holiday season! :btu:

I'm going to my sister's house today -- for some reason, we never have dinner on the actual holiday. Then the nite before Thanksgiving, I'm going out with alot of my nieces and nephews (we're all the same age) to do the Thanksgiving Crawl. Thanksgiving will be a day of sunglasses and aspirin.

As for traditions, Dad always swoops down on the turkey to eat the skin before anyone else can. Very often a small child throws up. We always run out of gravy. Someone eats the last roll and incurs the wrath of the rest of the family. My sister drinks too much Bacardi and embarrasses herself. All in all, a very eventful family time.

we are just staying home, and getting ready for the day after sales!! Thats the holiday in this house.
We go thur all the adds and my wife and son go to one store and I and my daughter go to another.

We get some pretty good deals every year!!

We'll be in N. Truro for the Holiday Weekend. Starting a new tradition: we'll be remembering the Pilgrims in their first footsteps in the New World, from Provincetown to Corn Hill. Those folks had some real courage to leave home at that time of year with absolutely nothing waiting for them here. They arrived in P-town Harbor on Nov. 11, 1620 and explored to Nauset for 4-5 weeks before moving to Plymouth. :eek5:

My house is "laid back" Thanksgiving. I cook the bird all night long. I am oned of those anal people with regard to cooking Turkeys. My birds are famous. One year I did three back to back for a large family gathering. Most years it is cook the bird and go lay down while my honey get the rest in order. I end up waking up and helping or getting in the way as I am the "cook" in the house. This year we already have 10 confirmed for the meal...might be a 2 bird night...or one big 25#bad boy.

As the meal is almost ready it is Open House to all our friends and relatives. We do not go visiting etc. That is for X-mas. Turkey day is for spending time relaxing and sharing food and FOOTBALL. The Tv starts with the parades in the morning and then we watch games and lay around eating all day. Since I have lost 57 lbs since JANUARY 3RD THIS YEAR COULD BE EPIC, or not.

My personal favorite parts of the day are at 12 noon, I stop everything, crank up the stereo and listed to the annual broadcast of "Alice's Restaurant", this must be done.

On thanksgiving night, there is one other thing. Many here know that I am a recovering addict with over 10 years clean. On Thanksgiving night I make sure to be at a "Gratitude" meeting of Narcoitics Anonymous. It is a special time to remember that all I have is only gravy compared to the life I used to lead and could again with one bad decision.

Then back to the house for a bown of leftover meldley (more commonly known as mush), more desert and sleep.

Pull down the shades,unplug the phone,have some turkey,....and PLENTY of BEER! ,watch some football! :wave:

Sunrise, dog and me will head to beaches, back late AM to help out, follow orders mostly, feedbag, then I do all the dishes and pots and pans.. then go for long walk in Nickerson SP with the pup, my back yard :D
Be Thankfull for everything, mostly... that's what it's all about.

taking that big silver bird to NM than to Kansas for a little hunting. ThomT

Just my dad,myself and maybe my brother at my dad's house.We may go up to Hampton NH to see my dad's brother and sister-in-law but he hasn't been well and she can't remember her name but I'd still like to see my cousin and her kids.

Its amazing how quickly the time passes.It doesn't seem so long ago that these folks were full of life and now its come to the point where they may not be around much longer.

Thanksgiving is definitely a time of reflection.

Patrick! We do "Alice's Restaurant", too. Drag out the old LP every year!

I'm thinking of going to a high school football game... maybe Brockton High.. hard to find a game with more heart than school boy .. Then to my beautiful sister in laws,, eat to much ,,watch stupid Detroit game,,take naps,, plan ski trips. pay up on survivor pool,, draw names for Christmas,, then dread working Friday.. God Bless America !!!!

Fishchick and I will go to my Mom's as always....unfortunately I do not have my boys this year :( but we will cook another turkey at our house next weekend! :jump: My duties at my Mom's include smashing the potatoes real good...carving the bird, and helping with pretty much everything else! My sister does the gravy.....my Dad used to do these things and made the tastiest gravy around but since he is gone we do these things and remember all the great turkey days we shared with my Dad....he will be remembered fondly as always this day and missed a great deal as usual.

Damn ---- Larry --- you spoiled my reply. I was going to invite myself to your house for bird day. My house will be jumping !! 18 people and I get to help cook and do KP. Have a Great Thanksgiving ALL!!! :rotfl: :wid:

Flying to Raleigh Tuesday - Wildcat's hockey game that night. Dinner at my daughter's on Thursday - son-in-law and I head for Hattaras late Thursday - fly home Sunday.

BAAAAAAAH HUMBUUUUUUUUUUG! :devil2:

It's going to be kind of a crappy turkey day for me,
I'll be recovering from surgery.
Wife is taking the kids to relatives house for the day.
So it will be me and the dog home all day.
On the bright side, should be a nice QUIET day!!!

i will be nantucket...would love to have bass featured on the menu...any suggestions on places on the island to fish? not sure if that is allowed on this site but thought i would ask....

Ronnie ..Hope you feel better..Happy Turkey Day

Going to my in-laws on the East End of Long Island. 4 days of fishing the east end beaches of Long Island and Montauk- thats the tradition.

I will be bird hunting with my father in the am, and then it's home to help the bride with the dinner. We have guest like every other year.

Thanksgivings' always been a big day for us.

Traditionally, we've always started the day with BlackFishing aka Tautogging. We arrive on the rocks at pre-dawn...start off with a toast to good health and a fun day....and tog for a few hours.
After that, we head home and a different group already has some old hockey nets up and from ages 8 and up, we have a clean/fun deck hockey game...normally at the local tennis court. Then it's off to the showers and CHOW DOWN.

Makes for a GREAT afternoon nap...then waking up to the cowboys gettin an *$$ whippin, it just don't get better than that...

Going to Florida to my brother-in-law's for the first time. I have no idea what they are going to do, but if it's anything like my mother-in-law used to make it will be good. A happy and safe holiday to all.


Pete

Eating turkey with my inlaws for lunch then lobstahs with my parents for dinner. Being in education, I get a nice 5 day weekend every year. You can bet I'll be fishing somewhere at some point. Thinking about making a trip to the Jersey shore.

It's just going to be me, the wife, and her two kids, and maybe one or two of her son's college friends who can't get home. We usually sleep in and start around 10 or so, preparing for a late afternoon or early evening dinner. If it's cold, we'll get a fire going. We put on some music that we only play on Thanksgiving. She has a CD called A Broadway Christmas that has a stupid song on it named "It's Turkey-Lurkey Time". My stepdaughter doesn't accept it's Thanksgiving unless she hears that (she 24 fer crissakes ;) ). We'll also play a fiddle CD called Harvest Home by Jay Unger and Molly Mason, which also has that theme song from the PBS Civil War series on it. Then Arlo's Greatest Hits, which has "you know what" on it. I spend most of the day alternating between helping in the kitchen (peeling potatoes, re-cycling dirty pots and pans, stuffing the bird, and so on) and watching the games with the sound turned off. You can almost bet that sometime in the afternoon, I'll have to run out to pick up one or two ingredients we forgot, or to buy wine. Then, it's take out and rinse the "good" china we only use on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. Set the table, and chow down without too much fanfare. Maybe one toast and that's that.