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canyonwalker) wrote2023-11-23 08:40 pm
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Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Travelog #10
Camp Hill, PA - Thu, 23 Nov 2023. 11pm.
Another Thanksgiving is in the record books. There was a big meal. Whatever. Thanksgiving isn't a big deal for us, per se. We don't cook huge meals. We don't celebrate traditions or mythologize the day's history. We do travel for Thanksgiving. We travel to visit family most years[1], family whom we otherwise see only once or occasionally twice a year. It's seeing that family we celebrate. Family is what we're thankful for.
The big meal today was at the house of my inlaws' close friends. They and my inlaws both love to cook and host dinners. Thus, they take turns for Thanksgiving (and Passover). And by "take turns" I mean they both cook for each holiday. Today was Thanksgiving dinner at the friends' house; Saturday is Second Thanksgiving at my inlaws'.
[1] Since traveling to visit family has become our Thanksgiving tradition I checked back through my blogs to see how often we've done it. Across the previous 5 years we're at 3 out of 5. Last year and the year before we traveled to visit our parents and other relatives. In 2020 with the Coronavirus pandemic raging Thanksgiving was canceled. We cooked a meal for ourselves at home. In 2019 we traveled to visit family. In 2018 we traveled but it was for hiking trips in California. That year we ate Thanksgiving dinner at a Denny's restaurant.
Camp Hill, PA - Thu, 23 Nov 2023. 11pm.
Another Thanksgiving is in the record books. There was a big meal. Whatever. Thanksgiving isn't a big deal for us, per se. We don't cook huge meals. We don't celebrate traditions or mythologize the day's history. We do travel for Thanksgiving. We travel to visit family most years[1], family whom we otherwise see only once or occasionally twice a year. It's seeing that family we celebrate. Family is what we're thankful for.
The big meal today was at the house of my inlaws' close friends. They and my inlaws both love to cook and host dinners. Thus, they take turns for Thanksgiving (and Passover). And by "take turns" I mean they both cook for each holiday. Today was Thanksgiving dinner at the friends' house; Saturday is Second Thanksgiving at my inlaws'.
[1] Since traveling to visit family has become our Thanksgiving tradition I checked back through my blogs to see how often we've done it. Across the previous 5 years we're at 3 out of 5. Last year and the year before we traveled to visit our parents and other relatives. In 2020 with the Coronavirus pandemic raging Thanksgiving was canceled. We cooked a meal for ourselves at home. In 2019 we traveled to visit family. In 2018 we traveled but it was for hiking trips in California. That year we ate Thanksgiving dinner at a Denny's restaurant.