My First Canadian Thanksgiving

On Monday, October 8th I was invited to celebrate Thanksgiving with my friends Eli and Bethanie. He is Canadian eh? They were married in June and this was thier first attempt at Thanksgiving.

I was a little late with the camera, but here is Eli carving his first turkey. He is in the dark blue shirt. He is getting pointers from his friend Jacob.

It was just like American Thanksgiving. We had Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, yams, salad, rolls, cranberry sauce and of course, pie! Well, almost like American Thanksgiving. I told him the only difference was that there was no football on T.V. (I have no idea if there could have been football. The T.V. was never turned on.)  He jokingly responded that that was what made Canadian Thanksgiving better! That and it would have been cricket.

We joked with Eli and Bethanie that this first attempt was just practice for next month.  It was so much fun we decided we need to celebrate Thanksgiving every month. Chinese Thanksgiving. New Zealand Thanksgiving. Papua New Guinea Thanksgiving. Cameroon Thanksgiving. (One of the guests was from Cameroon and she decided she would create a Thanksgiving for it!)

Why not? There is so much to be thankful for.  Love you all.