Unbutton your pants and finish your Halloween candy because the most wonderful time of year has arrived; Thanksgiving: a holiday where an entire country travels, eats, drinks and gathers for a day of friendship and most importantly (let’s be real), food. Time predicted that this Thanksgiving, there will be 48.7 million people traveling throughout the U.S. to celebrate.
As a November baby, I feel bad for Thanksgiving being shadowed by the holidays surrounding it. Sure, mostly everyone we know partakes in it but does anyone really get as excited for Thanksgiving as they would for Halloween or Christmas? No. They do not.
Thanksgiving is an underrated holiday in my opinion and here are my reasons why:
1. It’s a day dedicated to eating as much food as you possibly can with the people you love. For the entire day-aka the best day off ever.
2. People tend to look past Thanksgiving and focus on Christmas, which is so not okay because it is important to have a transition holiday between Halloween and Christmas. One cannot simply make the jump from a spooky ghost to the Holy Ghost.
3. Black Friday. Black Friday was made for Thanksgiving, just think about it. You know how bears eat mass amounts of food to keep warm for the winter? Well, Thanksgiving falls the day before Black Friday, where shoppers all over the country can stuff themselves full with energy and warmth for the chilly dead-of-the-night temperatures and thus fuel them through the crowds.
4. This may be #4 on the list but it’s #1 in my heart. It’s the only day of the year where people won’t give you snarky side glances as you pick up the serving spoon and help yourself to round two (or three or four). Go ahead and eat that extra bowl of mac & cheese, you’re gorgeous.
Now that you’ve (hopefully) come to the realization of the colonists’ utter genius, here are some of the best things to do on Turkey Day.
1. Watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV or better yet, bundle up and go into the city to watch the massive floats parade through the skyscrapers.
2. Volunteer at a local food bank or homeless shelter before sitting down for your Thanksgiving meal. Thanksgiving is a holiday for the expression of gratitude so what better way to do this than giving back to others who may not be as fortunate.
3. Run a local Thanksgiving Day race to make yourself feel better about the mass amount of food you’re coming home to consume.
4. Go ice-skating to kick off the winter season and have fun with your family.
*Cue food coma
