Overheard last week in Zurich:
Happy Turkey Day!
It's Turkey Day?
I mean Happy Thanksgiving.
Oh, I thought you meant it was Turkey's (country) national holiday.
Yep, we're not in the U.S. any more. Further evidence included the fact that I worked on Thanksgiving, Chloe had school on Thanksgiving and stores here moved straight from Halloween merchandise to Christmas.
But we celebrated anyway in our own way on Friday by inviting our friends over (one family of 6 and a friend of theirs, and our single guy friend) and eating all the old standbys. It actually felt exactly like Thanksgiving when we all piled into the house, toys were flying by, kids were in every room, food was everywhere and there was barely enough room at the table for all the people and food. Chloe went to bed at 10 p.m. if that is an indication of the good time we were having.
Oh, and tonight is all about leftovers...so frankly, it feels just like home.
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