Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends.
Canadians don't really put the same emphasis on it. Ours is a month earlier (we don't have as much to be thankful for, I guess) and it's superficially the same, what with turkey and ham and potatoes and whatnot; but it's hardly the huge production that we see south of the border.
Canuck refugee Evan Kirchoff is similarly perplexed:
Eight years in, and I can't muster any reaction beyond "crap, the stores will be closed all day?" I think this is why I've made the mistake -- several times, mind you -- of attempting to drive out of the Bay Area on the Wednesday afternoon of Thanksgiving weekend: I just cannot internalize the fact that every single sentient American is travelling from somewhere to somewhere else on that same afternoon. Surely last year was just a fluke: no, here we are stuck in an 8-hour traffic jam again!! What are the odds?l
It's hard to think of a Canadian equivalent. We do have Boxing Day after Christmas, which is some kind of British import, where you get to play slap 'n tickle with the maid or something. But seeing as most of us don't have maids, we just stay drunk for it.
Hey, I hope you all have a wonderful time.