Well, it’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States!  Instead of listing the  history, I thought I’d detail my family’s Thanksgiving Day routine.

• After waking up, we watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on TV.  This parade is in New York, and we don’t live close enough to see it in person.
• While still watching the parades, we drift downstairs to get a light breakfast.  Since we are going to have a big meal at noon, we’ll typically just eat a bowl of cereal.
• We all get ready to leave.  After showers, the kids get dresses up nicely, my daughter puts on a fancy dress.
• Next, we hit the road to my in-law’s house. Once there we’ll have our Thanksgiving Day feast consisting of: turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, cranberry relish, stuffing, vegetables (broccoli, corn, green beans, cauliflower), noodles and rolls.  For dessert, we have cake, pies (pumpkin and chocolate), brownies and ice cream.
• I’ll try to watch some American football (maybe I should call this United States football), but this isn’t so popular at my wife’s parent’s house.  I have to sneak the channel change…  Later, we’ll try to watch “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” on TV or video (my little girl gets a kick out of it).
• After the feast, we just socialize for a few hours, then pack it up and drive home.
• Here’s the kicker, the next day, we have another Thanksgiving feast at my parent’s house.  We do it that way because my sister goes to her husband’s house on Thanksgiving day and they live over 3 hours away from my parent’s house.  Before my sister was married, we’d celebrate thanksgivings day meals twice on Thanksgiving day.  Once at my parents, then later at my wife’s house.

Overall, it’s a fun but hectic day.

I’m not sure if we are going to try to go out to the “Black Friday” or not.  If you go out and do “Black Friday” with friends, it be a bit more enjoyable.  This is a very frugal day to go shopping.

I’d like to say “Good Luck” to all the frugal bloggers out there that will participate in this event!