Thanksgiving Holiday: It's Time For Rocking Fun

Stretching your legs is not something that you do daily. Sportsmen do it regularly and common men definitely try to prove their skills in long jumps at least once in a year. It's all about Thanksgiving fun!

Thanksgiving Holiday is no more just a solemn occasion. Apart from paying tribute to God for everything that He has given us, people are now more into social activities. Kids keep their potato peelers, paring knives and apples ready for the Apple Paring game. This is now quite a popular game for kids during Thanksgiving Holiday and the winner is one who can produce the longest unbroken strip of apple skin. And if you do not want to be in the apple game, you can just run around your friends and play Deer and Hunter. It has been found out that American children love to spend their Thanksgiving holiday by making scare crow in the orchard. And leaf jumping is a must to welcome Fall to mark a change of pace for the new season. The boys have a sporty Thanksgiving Fun whenever they fold a paper into football and start playing Tabletop football.

One can also go for an old fashioned Thanksgiving Holiday celebration. In that case people love to invite their near and dear ones to Thanksgiving dinner. The Thanksgiving Invites dress up in black and grey with buckle hats on their heads. The feast is an yummy one with roasted turkey, pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes. You need not sit quietly with a serious and solemn mind. Even Pilgrims and Wampanoag ate and made merry for three days on 1621 Fall. Many people do not even want to believe that the Pilgrims danced, sang and also went for foot races. Hence, merry making was always a part and parcel of Thanksgiving Holiday..

Film industry often portrays Thanksgiving as a holiday associated with family gatherings. On one hand we find an American character trying to get home to his family for Thanksgiving in 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' whereas in 'Shadow lands' we get a funny picture of Thanksgiving dinner preparation. One can hardly forget Ann Margaret's character in 'Grumpy Old Men' because it was only she who is not crazy about turkey on Thanksgiving Holiday. Thanksgiving is even tuneless without Arlo Guthrie's song Alice's Restaurant. And this is why the song is played by many radio stations at least once on that day.

Thanksgiving celebration carries no meaning without the football game whether it is for America or Canada. Professional games are traditionally played in both the countries during Thanksgiving Holiday. 2006 will witness the revival of American Football League with Denver Broncos on Thanksgiving holiday. Apart from these major football events, college and high school football games are played over Thanksgiving weekend generally between regional or historic rivals.

If we are into Thanksgiving Holiday celebrations then the discussion cannot put the curtain down without a few lines on Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade is annually held on every Thanksgiving Day in Midtown Manhattan. This is perhaps the most colorful parade with large balloons of cartoon characters flying high in the clear sky of November. Every year a theme parade is organized and scenes are generally taken from Broadway plays. The Santa Clause float gives us the signal that the Christmas season has begun. The Thanksgiving Parades of Plymouth, Houston, Philadelphia and Detroit are also well known ones.

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving Holiday night is one of the busiest one in the year for bars and pubs as people come back to their hometowns and students return from their semesters. Thus, it's time for fun, football and a frenzied holiday. Thanksgiving Holiday is truly the time when we realize what God has given us and we want to have a taste of all those gifts and hence we have an annual secular one day holiday for the enjoyment in United States and Canada.