Pretty much same here - always the big high-school football game @ 10:30 AM , usually @ the bar for brunch @ 8 AM
then off to Aunt's house for antipasta, lasagna, then turkey, italian thing? I didn't mind, then after dinner some tackle football in the backyard with my brothers and cousins, this lasted about 1/2 hour before somebody would go in crying then the game was over. Lately, just Thanksgiving @ Hesh2's house, sometimes turkey sometimes not, the best was the "surf and turf" thanksgiving. A couple of years just celebrated in NYC with wife and some friends who had relatives who lived too far to travel home. Did Thanksgiving Day Parade one year in NYC, figured I lived there the past 7 years, maybe I attend one?
. Last year, was with my parents and day after Thanksgiving fished RI hard with father and brother, what a day to be on the water, no fish caught however but still an excellent time. This year for the first time going to my wife's mom's house for Turkey Day - her dad passed earlier this year - "have" to be there for her w/o question. Enjoy all. "The more things change the more the stay the same"
Tight lines,
Ice