Thanksgiving

All sorts of pumpkin pie! which one to choose?

Helping to carve the turkey.

The last Thursday in November is always a holiday in America. It celebrates Thanksgiving which is when some of the first settlers in America, The Plymouth Bretheren,  celebrated getting their first harvest in. This was very important as they knew that had their first crop failed they would not have been able to survive the winter. It is the equivalent of our Harvest Festival but is a very important day in America when families try to be together, it is nearly as important as Christmas. The traditional meal is turkey and pumpkin pie. Turkeys originated in North America and they were good food to the settlers. Some were sent back to England and farmed, they now replace the traditional goose as our Christmas meal! We had turkey and were invited to the next door neighbors to share their meal and eat pumpkin pie. Like Christmas, Thanksgiving is a time of sharing and celebration.