As you all know, on Thanksgiving people eat turkey. Turkey is original of America, And it's supposed that the pilgrims ate it during the first harvest celebration. To help the dryness of the turkey after four hours of oven baking, it's accompanied with cranberry sauce, an interestinc combination, to say the least. Also the stuffing of the turkey, made of bread, vegetables and spices, and gravy. For dessert, of course, pumpkin pie.
In the US Thanksgiving Day is the traditional day of family reunion. As in Spain families get together for Christmas, here they do on this long November weekend. Hence, Wednesday and Sunday are the days with more air traffic of the year, I have traveled in the past on these days and airports are really chaotic. Same for highway traffic, and trains (where they exist) are also pretty full. The train I took this morning was bursting with people.
I have spent Thanksgiving with Sean and Katherine at their lake house. With us there were a few siblings and cousins. We ate turkey and pumpkin pie, and we spent the evening playing cards. I learned a new game (hearts), not too hard to learn and interesting, and I even won a game :-) in hard competition with Meg (Katherine's sister), who is an expert. Little did they know that the game was really similar to a Catalan game I used to play when I was in high school, called the butifarra boja.
