How to be respectful of Thanksgiving when visiting US
 

Follow up to my previous Post about my upcoming holiday to the Florida. Any advice for what to do on Thanksgiving? Any Family activities? Or shall I just do a big Turkey Dinner? Will all the shops and theme Parks be closed?

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Most things will be closed, especially the smaller businesses. OR some may be closed early and will open later in the day. Some stores will be open to take advantage of crazy shoppers, but for the most part everything is very slow. It's the biggest holiday in the U.S. There really isn't anything to "respect". It's just a day to relax, eat, and be with your family and friends in whatever way you see fit.

Overeat, watch football, sleep, and overeat again. Tell the wife not to go shopping on Friday morning.

Attend a anti Trump rally just for laughs

Disney and Universal will be open but they are insanely busy. Chinese buffets will be open along with Casinos and movie theaters.

^^THIS.

You must make a mashed potato boat, fill it with corn, drown it in gravy, and then dip your turkey into that. That's pretty much the only rule.

The only other rule is cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole/pumpkin pie, and stuffing/dressing must accompany the feast boat.

I like to enjoy some pie on Thanksgiving, which makes it like any other day except that I actually have a reasonable shot on Thanksgiving.

Forget everything else and just enjoy being with friends and family.

Bring up the election.

Talk about politics with family.

yes, encourage your family to go sign up for obamacare

Utilize the occasion to finally get to the bottom of race relations in America.

A lot of places will be closed a good portion of Thursday at the very least if not closed outright. 24/7 chain diners will be a good bet for what would be actually taking customers that day and they won't be staffed with the happiest of servers necessarily.

You've picked an odd time to the visit the USA, OP.

The theme parks will be open.

The last time I was in Orlando for Thanksgiving we pre-ordered dinner from Publix - they cooked the turkey, sides, etc. and we brought it back to the condo. Another time we went to the Ale House in Orlando and they had a decent turkey dinner.
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I think best buy is openin at 10. Hoping to snag an Xbox one ans a tablet.

plan ahead. you don't want to run out of toilet paper on thanksgiving.:eek:
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That sounds great

Thanks for all other responses too

Make sure you're completely hammered when you do it too

Mix it up. Turkey is great and all, but nothing says kickass dinner like a Prime Rib.

Have Publix set you up with a Thanksgiving Day spread. Enjoy it in your condo with family. You can experience the truest of American traditions that day. Please take a video of you shaking a half eaten turkey leg mumbling about Ungrateful, traitorous, colonists. That will be great! :D

Soooo... Hookers and blow isn't an option?

Take this seriously - it's a real possbility.

Lots of pie can cause....problems.

ROFL

If you talk about Queen here, it better be a conversation about Freddie Mercury, or one of the 4 cards in a deck you damn red coat.

The Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico are both 1.5 hours in either direction from Orlando. Water temps are about 75 degrees.

How far is Shrewsbury from London? I fancy a visit to the United Kingdom one day soon. I'd like to stay for about a month and see the entire country. When is the best time of year weather wise would it be for me to do that? Do you guys experience a high level of humidity? I know it rains a lot, but I grew up in Seattle. I'm okay with that. I'll have to hit you up when the time comes so I can get some local insight as to the best activities to do while I'm there.

Shrewsbury is about 200 miles from the capital in the West Midlands.

If you want the best UK weather you need to be her between June and August. It is pretty miserable now. Humidity is low.

London is great but there are plenty of other cool places to visit Birmingham, Manchester, Brighton really depends what you are into. A lot of Americans like the Castles and Historic type stuff.

If you do come over let me know.

I will. London isn't even on my radar outside of my desire to see #9. I follow British news on my phone almost daily and have always been fascinated with your country. I'll look forward to getting some advice from you when the time comes. I'm hopeful it will be next summer.

Before I die I'd love to revisit where my parents lived outside of London and where my maternal grandparents where from in the Rhineland.

All set for Thanksgiving.

Got Publix set dinner beer, Pecan Pie and Ice Cream!

and football!!!

Have a good one everybody!!!

Congrats on your first Thanksgiving.

Nice, you also need to start a meaningless argument with a relative, preferably an in-law.

Don't go out in public tomorrow. It's a national holiday in the US called "black friday" where poor people get in mob riots to buy off-brand chinese electronics that will fail by august.

Yep, and remember: You only "win" if you get the last word!

Welcome

Amen

ROFL

We have Black Friday in the UK believe it or not.

As long as you aren't Canadian, have a nice Thanksgiving here in the states.

Do they have any of the good holidays (like 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and Martin Luther King day) in England?

Not really, but they have a butt load of holidays.

Iceland beat England on a Friday did they?

LMAO

LMAO

They are too busy celebrating Muslim Islamic holidays ... true story ... :D

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