This year, our turkey day was filled with a 6AM wake up call, emails to tend to, and colleagues to communicate with. And while I am enjoying teaching, the last place I wanted to be on Thanksgiving was at work.
However, as Ross + I discussed, Thanksgiving away from home has made us appreciate the holiday filled with family, friends, and a copious amount of food + wine. Further, it's made me appreciate Americans' pride and sense of community. Lastly, being here for the holiday helped me to learn the following:
1. Black Friday surprisingly exists in Europe. Specifically in London, it started last year. They have absolutely no idea the meaning of Black Friday or why it exists. And they think Americans are absolutely out of their mind for feeding into the Black Friday frenzy {I'm a little confused why they started the shopping trend then...}.
2. Turkeys are so expensive here. From what we saw at a local shop, a turkey is £14 per kilogram, or about $21 for 2 pounds.
3. The English have turkey or ham for Christmas dinner.
4. Ground turkey is called minced turkey. I know that because I made turkey meatballs for Thanksgiving dinner {since turkeys are expensive}. How jealous are you of these meatballs below?
6. Even though the Brits don't celebrate Thanksgiving, they sure know how to celebrate Christmas {after all, they have two full months to prepare and set up while America is busy celebrating Halloween + Turkey Day...}. Just look at the lit up streets and markets below.