Thanksgiving Weekend

In the week leading up to the Thanksgiving weekend, there were a couple of stories on CBC news about the origins of the holiday. I have always linked it to the American tradition about the pilgrims and the celebration of the harvest. But, what I learned was that the Canadian tradition of Thanksgiving goes back further than that, and one of the earliest reasons for this holiday was for the celebration of homecoming. Safe homecoming was not something to be taken for granted, way back when.

This past weekend I guess you could say that we celebrated both. Although a safe homecoming is much more certain these days, it is not always so certain that all of the kids in the family, and their loved ones, can make it home all at once. It is certainly something to be treasured, and something to be celebrated with a feast. And mom sure did deliver on the feast. Thanks for a great weekend everyone!



There were no photos snapped while all of the family was around, but on a sunny Sunday afternoon, mom, dad, Anna, Patrik and I headed out for a coastal walk at Neck Point.


There was some goofing around with morfar,


and of course with pappa.



Neck Point Park is located in the city, but you feel like you could be on the wild west coast of the island. There is not a sign of the city anywhere.




Anna soaked up some time with "momo" and "fofa", and so did we.



Happy Thanksgiving everyone :)