Happy Belated Thanksgiving, everybody! I realize we Yanks are the only ones celebrating it right now, but I thought I’d send out a “happy turkey day” note anyway.
My immediate fam all lives back in California, and so since I live here in NYC, I celebrated with my uncle’s family. They call themselves “Thanksgiving nontraditionalists,” haha, so instead of having turkey at home, we went to the famous Katz Deli on the Lower East Side. It’s been there for 120 years, but it’s become especially famous for the “I’ll have what she’s having” scene in When Harry Met Sally. Their pastrami is incredible!!
I slept in too late to go to the service they had in London at the St. Paul’s Cathedral, so instead I chilled out for most of the day, and then caught a play in the evening. Not much Thanksgiving stuff going on in London, that’s for sure. (Though on the flip side, also no Black Friday, woo!)
Last year I was in NYC for Thanksgiving, and I think we also went out to a deli (wasn’t Katz, I don’t think, but another well-known one) for dinner that night. Much easier than cooking a ton of stuff.
I live in Orlando, Florida and we are actually doing our Thanksgiving dinner today. We have some family in Ft. Lauderdale and, as one of them couldn’t come up until last night, and as my wife was working on Thursday (she works at a Hospital), we decided to do or Turkey Day today instead.
Anyway, belated Happy Thanksgiving to all American’s in FF and hope you didn’t get caught up in the Black Friday madness.
I actually had my Thanksgiving yesterday as my mom worked Thanksgiving, so we just had a few family members come down, and then my best friend (her parents live in Massachussetts) and I went to a movie. Luckily I live in a pretty small town so there was no “omg Black Friday” going on. It was nice and low-key.
Belated happy turkey day to all! Thanksgiving’s pretty laid back for me–eat a smaller Thanksgiving lunch around noon, then go to the movies with my immediate family, come home for a drink and some relaxing, and early to bed. Black Friday is a bigger day for me than Thanksgiving itself, because I work retail… so I sleep generally from around 8 or 9pm to 2:30am before getting up to face the insanity!
I work retail as well. Black Friday is the spawn of the devil. I hate it. A friend of mine wanted me to go shopping with her before I went to work. I told her she could just forget that one.
