Kicking Off The Holiday Season
Most of you will know that this forthcoming week of November is Thanksgiving week in the US. It is also kind of the official start of the holiday season, with only another 4 weeks to go until Christmas. With a number of Christmas trees and lights already erected, and the major stores in the city already decorated and showing holiday windows, this weekend the Holiday Lights Festival on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, will see the lighting of more than a million white lights on the Michigan Avenue trees. We were planning to attend, but instead have elected to go to visit a friend of ours who is having a housewarming party; the lights festival will still be there next year!
We will be celebrating our first Thanksgiving by lazing around in bed, and probably decorating our Christmas tree. I know it is very early by UK standards, but our friends Tim and Darryl will be in town soon after and the Christmas party is the week after that, so we will be running out of time as usual. As far as I am concerned the earlier the better anyway. As usual, I have been digging around on the net to find out the real deal about Thanksgiving and trying to educate myself at the same time.
There are two main versions of the story of Thanksgiving. This one which really just tells the story of how the feast came about, when it was first thought to have been celebrated, when it was made official, what they would have eaten, etc; and this one which tells a much bloodier story of events, of which none us should be very proud. This last link reveals some of the myths surrounding the holiday, particularly around the timing and original dates.
Have a fantastic holiday season!
We will be celebrating our first Thanksgiving by lazing around in bed, and probably decorating our Christmas tree. I know it is very early by UK standards, but our friends Tim and Darryl will be in town soon after and the Christmas party is the week after that, so we will be running out of time as usual. As far as I am concerned the earlier the better anyway. As usual, I have been digging around on the net to find out the real deal about Thanksgiving and trying to educate myself at the same time.
There are two main versions of the story of Thanksgiving. This one which really just tells the story of how the feast came about, when it was first thought to have been celebrated, when it was made official, what they would have eaten, etc; and this one which tells a much bloodier story of events, of which none us should be very proud. This last link reveals some of the myths surrounding the holiday, particularly around the timing and original dates.Have a fantastic holiday season!
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