Thankful

美国人在一年里有幾個節慶，最主要的兩個節日是，11 月的第四星期四的感恩節，接着是聖誕節。

感恩節除了感恩之外，最高興的是，與家人的相聚餐，通常主要的食物是火雞、stuffing、cranberry sauce、mashed potatoes with gravy 和 pumpkin pie。

我們到 Kansas City，抵達 Steve 媽家的外面時，还看到半夜時下的薄雪。我們被邀到 Sue 丈夫的哥哥家的感恩節晚餐… 很美好的一天！

感恩節的第二天是 ＇Black Friday＇… 你知道那是什么嗎？那是聖誕節採購的開始，很多大商店大減价，有些在凌晨四點就开始，都是被早起的鳥兒圍得水洩不通… Sue 约三點一刻起身，这聖誕樹是她的其中一項戰利品…

America has a few big celebrations every year, the biggest being Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November and Christmas.

Thanksgiving is a day to remember the things for which we are thankful; the happiest is being together with family. Normally, the foods include turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes with gravy, and pumpkin pie.

When we arrived in Kansas City, we saw they had a light snow overnight outside Steve’s mom’s house. We were invited by Sue’s brother-in-law to their house to have Thanksgiving dinner… A very wonderful day!
The day after Thanksgiving is ‘Black Friday’… You know what that is? It is the start of the Christmas shopping season, and many big stores have very big sales, some starting at 4am; they are crowded by early birds… Sue woke up around 3.15am and got this Christmas tree; just one of her ‘prizes’…