http://www.expatify.com/advice/american-expats-celebrating-thanksgiving-abroad.html Expat Blogs & Community Magazine Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.expatify.com/advice/american-expats-celebrating-thanksgiving-abroad.html/comment-page-1#comment-2634 Young Letterlough Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:35:37 +0000 http://www.expatify.com/?p=2970#comment-2634 I really enjoyed this and I will clearly come back soon to read more on your blog. I really enjoyed this and I will clearly come back soon to read more on your blog.

]]> http://www.expatify.com/advice/american-expats-celebrating-thanksgiving-abroad.html/comment-page-1#comment-1427 Michelle Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:03:24 +0000 http://www.expatify.com/?p=2970#comment-1427 For me, number 3 is most important--sure, the turkey was great and all the 'traditional trimmings' were nice, but what really made it Thanksgiving and set it apart from any other big (BIG) roast dinner was having some wonderful American friends with us at the time. This year was the first time in 18 years I celebrated Thanksgiving, just because it was the first time in 20 years overseas that I had Americans around to join me--the first couple of years I was in the UK I tried and tried to make it work, but something was always missing... the fellow Americans who shared the same cultural history as me. For me, number 3 is most important–sure, the turkey was great and all the ‘traditional trimmings’ were nice, but what really made it Thanksgiving and set it apart from any other big (BIG) roast dinner was having some wonderful American friends with us at the time. This year was the first time in 18 years I celebrated Thanksgiving, just because it was the first time in 20 years overseas that I had Americans around to join me–the first couple of years I was in the UK I tried and tried to make it work, but something was always missing… the fellow Americans who shared the same cultural history as me.

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