Canadian Thanksgiving

Ah, the holiday season is beginning! We celebrated Thanksgiving Canadian style this past weekend. It is still a novelty to me, to be thinking about Thanksgiving before Halloween, and while the sun is still shining and the days warm and bright. Makes more sense in the harvest scheme of things, but not in the deeply ingrained cultural, Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November kind of way.

It was a typical Thanksgiving day here - we celebrated with friends on Bowen, on Sunday evening. It seems that the meal can and does take place anytime over the long weekend - Thanksgiving Day is actually on Monday (it coincides with American Columbus Day), but folks don't particularly seem interested in waiting until Monday to eat the turkey. In fact, there isn't always a turkey, or even a real set tradition of what "should" be eaten. In many ways it is really fun - a total hodge-podge of what makes people happy to eat. Because so many of us on Bowen are family-less, it is the best combination of those you want to be with, lots of laughter and few expectations. Thre is much to be thankful for this year - even as we look towards our upcoming move.