Does anyone do anything FUN on Thanksgiving?

[Lisa loves Pooh]

This year--hopefully enjoying a new niece or nephew (due Nov 18th).

Other years---make do, but just enjoy being with family. Wish we were more interesting though.

 

[Laurajean1014]

Nope, we eat and then we watch tv.

 

[minkydog]

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I cook the pies, collards, and cranberries the day before. I get up real early on T-day, sneak around in the kitchen and put the bird in the oven, then go back to bed. When we all get up about 9am, the house smells yummy. We watch the parades while the stuffing cooks.

We eat dinner about 1-2pm, which leaves us plenty of time to put up the Christmas tree! We watch DVDs while we decorate--take a pie & coffee break--make s'mores in the fireplace--play Star Wars Monoply. To me, this is a lot of fun. We rarely have any other family visiting, so it's just us and we make it a special day with all our traditions.

However, this year we're going to WDW

 

[bimshire]

This year, we aren't doing any cooking or cleaning. We will be cruising on the Caribbean Princess. Sunshine and relaxation and the kids will love the onboard activites and ports of call.

 

[vacanut]

We're gonna be in Vegas on our honeymoon this Thanksgiving!!

I won't be on my honeymoon but I'll be in Vegas too!
I'll be staying at TI as well!!!

 

[caitycaity]

thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. i help my mom cook and i really enjoy being with my family because i don't get to see them that often.

 

[DD2Disney]

We usually play some board games while the turkey cooks. DMIL usually makes us breakfast and I usually make the turkey. We don't do a whole lot of cooking because it is just 4 of us. But we do have fun.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Denise--our Thanksgiving is no fun either.We have to get up, drive to my mother's in Ft.Worth for lunch there around noonish-1 pm and then, almost as soon as we eat, leave and drive to the IL's in FlowerMound for another dinner there around 3-4 pm. It's one long big eating orgy which I could really really REALLY do without.

However...there is an upside to it this year. Since I am no longer in retail, I don't have to worry about getting up at some ungodly hour to go to work and deal with crazy,grumpy,manic people who are out shopping. Yay.

TOV

 

[Disneyrsh]

I looooove to cook! I do Martha Stewart's white wine and butter turkey every year.

I have good memories growing up of Thanksgiving up in MA, which for some reason, being the Land of T'giving, really does it better than anywhere else I've been. Lots of big family dinners, amazing cooks, and lots of good card games. Uno, anyone?

Our inlaws have decided that the other two unmarried adult siblings are more worthy of T'giving than we are so they are flying up to NYC to celebrate T'giving with them rather than the two siblings flying down here to eat at our place. *sigh*. We're just not cool enough. The kids are like, does Grandma not like your turkey?

So we've done turkey day with just the four of us, and while it's been an adjustment for me from the gigantic turkey powwows of my childhood, I'm really starting to enjoy it!

We stay in our jammies all day, we watch the parades, the girls are now old enough to help me make the food (I still make enough to send an army into a tryptophanic coma) and that's wonderful!

I call my parents, who are still up in MA and still doing the relatively large turkey day festivities. My mom and I see who got the bigger turkey and what we cooked for side dishes, etc, and miss each other and talk about the next disney vacation that we're going on together.

Our other tradition that we do now is look through our photo albums on Thanksgiving, to remember what we all have to be thankful for!

 

[justhat]

When I was younger, through high school, we'd go see a movie after we all ate. Sometimes we'd break up and see different movies, other times the whole extended family would pile into the same one. The past 2 years we went to Disney on Ice in the morning, then came home and did Thanksgiving at the house. This year we're going to Phoenix and haven't planned what we'll be doing, other than eating, on Thanksgiving yet.

 

[MoniqueU]

The week of Thanksgiving we will be at Disneylands Grand Californian. On Thanksgiving we go bowling/casino/arcade/buffet with the kids. Thanksgiving is not my favorite holiday.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

My mom, dad, sister, BIL, niece, nephew, uncle, aunt, cousins, SO and I will be going to a cabin and play around on the ATV's, hike, cook, play games and paintball. It should be a blast.

 

[sodaseller]

Our extended family (including us) are not football fans.

This proves your family is unAmerican, so that's the problem (Just kidding!)

 

[meandtheguys2]

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday! None of the "gift anxiety" of Christmas and all of the family. There are about 30 of us, ranging from 5 to 92 who get together. It gets harder and harder to get everyone in one place, so with some people Thanksgiving is our only shot. My brother is a drummer, and several play other instruments (guitar, flute, trumpet,etc.), so there is good music, and fellowship. Food is yummy, but secondary to the celebration.

 

[gina2000]

I love T'giving. Ours is usually small but last year we went to a friend's home and it was a blast. We took walks, talked, ate, talked, ate s'more, talked. It was lovely.

My sister always has an after-T'giving party. It's huge and a ton of fun. Sometimes it runs 2 days....

I guess we just like to party.

 

[Disneyrsh]

Oh, yeah, I forgot, every year for the past few we've been doing an after turkey day party where I get a bunch of friends to bring a leftover from the day before (I do the turkey, that way I can buy a HUGE one), and we all have a blast!

It's a good way for our single friends to feel part of the whole good Thanksgiving spirit, and a great way to use up leftovers!

We usually have the guys playing video games and the women go for walks or just hang out and chat.

I still end up with turkey in the freezer when Christmas rolls around. Time for a Christmas Ham!

 

[mic&min]

I will be at Disneyworld this year!!!! YEAH!!!