What will you be doing on Thanksgiving Day?

[adamdavid80]

How much have you spent on your turkey?  What kind?  Someone I know just spent $80 (!!!) on theirs, someone else bought a turkey with a cornish hen inside of it, with a duck inside of that, each component with stuffing inside...

Me, I'm vegetarian.  I'll be going to NYC's Chinatown, and enjoying that...

[toledobass]

It's just the Mrs. and I this year.  We've done just the 2 of us in the past and did the whole meal which ended up being totally ridiculous for only 2 people.  We didn't even have space on the table for our own plates!!!! I wish I had a picture of that.  This year we're gonna keep it relatively simple.  Dressing, mac and cheese, braised greens I think I may roast a chicken and the Mrs. is on dessert, offering up a pecan pie.

Allan

[Dundonnell]

Thanksgiving Day?

Doesn't mean much if you live outside the US of A

Seriously though, I know how much it means to you guys over there; I have seen 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles'

[Bulldog]

We have five folks coming over Thursday - a big turkey with all the fixings.  The price of the turkey was great.  Although having a list price of $1.99 a pound, they cost only $.29 a pound if the rest of the order is $20 or more.  So I ended up with a 20 pound turkey for less than $6. 

[Kullervo]

My family usually has Thanksgiving dinner at my grandmother's house, but she recently had a stroke, so we're having it at my mother's house this year.

[adamdavid80]

..so....so far I'd say Don definitely has the best Thanksgiving in store...

Or dundonnell, if you're really apathetic towards the day...   

[Szykneij]

I'm hoping for good weather because  I'll be watching my son play football -- big Thanksgiving Day high school football rivalry game.

[Anne]

My son is making the pies tomorrow. 

I am making the rest of the dinner at my house because my kitchen has much bigger work spaces (I spent hours planning that kitchen when we built the house).  One of my sisters is coming to my house tomorrow to help prepare the meal.  We will all go to my mother's house to eat it on Thanksgiving Day.  There will be 12 people total.

My daughter and her family (total of 4 people) will arrive hopefully about 5 pm tomorrow night after they have driven from St. Louis, Mo. with a 2-year-old and a 5-year old.  Daughter wants to help prepare the meal.

A little later my son wants everyone to come to his place tomorrow and have pizza.

All the work is done tomorrow which means turkey day is very relaxing. Some people take naps.  The guys usually want to watch the Detroit Lions' football game and we schedule the dinner around it.

[Bulldog]

All the work is done tomorrow which means turkey day is very relaxing. Some people take naps.  The guys usually want to watch the Detroit Lions' football game and we schedule the dinner around it.

Don't watch Detroit this year; you'll all get a stomach ache.

[Hollywood]

My last Thanksgiving dinner was in 1994.  Since I have been living in Austria I haven't had a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner. My Austrian husband and I usually will have a yummy goose dinner on Martinitag (St. Martin's Day on 11 Nov.). Unfortunately this Thanksgiving Day I will be at the dentist getting fitted up with a new bridge. 

[Szykneij]

Don't watch Detroit this year; you'll all get a stomach ache.

... unless you're a Titans fan 

[Sergeant Rock]

Living in Germany, Thanksgiving doesn't feel like a holiday. Mrs. Rock has to work, of course. Still, I'll make a traditional meal for the two of us: I bought a young turkey (8 pounder), sweet potatoes and cranberries at the army commissary in Wiesbaden last weekend. Pilgrim Barbie will be the table's centerpiece 

Sarge

[mn dave]

I have a URI. As does my wife. 

[Keemun]

Pilgrim Barbie will be the table's centerpiece 

I'd like to see a picture of that. 

I have a URI. As does my wife. 

What's a "URI"?

My wife and I are flying later today to visit my family for Thanksgiving.  We'll be at my aunt's house for Thanksgiving, eating turkey (I think) and other traditional fare.  It's going to be cold up there, which always reminds me why I'm glad I don't have to go through those winters anymore. :-)

[mn dave]

What's a "URI"?

Upper Respiratory Infection. 

That's why you haven't seen so many enlightening Dave-posts lately.

[Florestan]

Upper Respiratory Infection. 

I suppose this is the PC term for flu.

[mn dave]

I suppose this is the PC term for flu.

No, it's not the flu, per the doc.

[Florestan]

No, it's not the flu, per the doc.

Anyway, I wish you get healthy asap.

[adamdavid80]

I suppose this is the PC term for flu.

Nope.  URI's can really fuck up your ability to breathe, can lead to pleurisy (sp?), fill the lungs with fluid, can lead to pneumonia.  Maybein romania it's called something else, but on this side of the pond, yikes.  definitely feel better fast, dave.

[mn dave]

Thanks, guys.