Since I have only spent one Thanksgiving in Canada, and had turkey sandwiches, I am not really sure what all of their traditions include.
Our T-day looked very much like a traditional US celebration.
We ended up with 13 for dinner.
The table set-up looked like a J or an L. We sat 11 at the tables, and the 2 smallest shared a little table on the side.
Food included roast Turkey, stuffing (on the side), Soup in a Pumpkin (like french onion soup in a pumpkin), garbanzo bean salad, cranberry-orange relish, mashed potatoes and rolls. Pumpkin pie with fresh whipped cream for dessert.
Entertainment started with a very harmonious version of Oh, Canada. (Really, we sang the whole thing through – and most of us knew most of the words.) This inspired the three youngest, who then proceeded to put together a parade. The first parade included several adults as well, but the many others were just the three youngest with various musical implements.
Other than that it was just chit-chat and talking.
My day centered around shopping and kitchen work. The bookends to the pre-dinner portion were ordering 10 yards of topsoil, and it finally arriving. 10 yards doesn’t always land nicely on the planting strip, so Carl & Dennis (who arrived late yesterday from Amsterdam) moved probably 2 yards of topsoil from the street into the back yard. The remainder will have to wait for tomorrow.
My tomorrow will focus on dishes in the morning. We pretty much cleaned out the silverware, plates and used enough of bowls and glasses to ask if cleaning the cupboards would be worth considering as well.
Good company, and a good day.
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