Is this a long weekend for Americans too?
 

Monday, Canadians will be celebrating Columbus day, which is a little bit like Thanksgiving for Americans. Since Thanksgiving is in November, I was wondering if you guys have a long weekend.

When I was a kid we used to get Columbus Day as a school holiday.

But they ended that a long time ago

Thanksgiving is still my favorite holiday though.

We have a lot of turkeys in Germany, but they are not the eating kind. You can't find a Butter Ball here either. :(

LOL, I personnaly don't like Turkey, I wouldn't mind living in Germany :1orglaugh

Actually, it's the other way around. Yes, monday is a holiday in the U.S.

Canada = Thanksgiving

U.S. = Columbus Day

Thanks for the infos but that means that Americans will also be celebrating on the 24th of November, which will be, according to my agenda their Thanksgiving day?

In the U.S, Thanksgiving is in November. (fourth Thursday)

Columbus day is a different holiday and it's not about "Thanksgiving". I think you are confusing the two.

Columbus Day October : Honors Christopher Columbus, traditional discover of the Americas. In some areas it is also a celebration of Italian culture and heritage.

Thanksgiving in November : A day to give thanks for autumn harvest, marks traditional beginning of "holiday season."

Well, they are lucky. They get to have another day off in November :smokin
That day is actually a regular day in Quebec.

I know, I also live in Quebec. :pimp

Third Thursday in November. :upsidedow :thumbsup

It's always been the fourth thursday. :1orglaugh

I'm not a U.S. citizen and I know that.. :pimp

http://pressroom.hallmark.com/thanksgiving.html

"Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday in November."

GOBLE! GOBLE! GOBLE! I hate trukey too....lol :1orglaugh

Hey guys! don't start arguing now :1orglaugh

Deep fried Turkey is the greatest thing in the world.

I'm in calanada and I have no clue wtf columbus day is

I have no clue where calanada is.

whoa I typed that? LOL

I had a rough night be kind

You'd think we were at the same party! :winkwink:

Wath party? why no one ever tell me? :(

you guys have way to many days off...

:liebe028:

Every day is a work day and every day is a day off when you run the shop.

They only celebrate columbulumbus day in Canada :1orglaugh

Humm, sounds good though... Very American

Thanks everybody for the clarification :D

Join the club.
I actually always called it " L'action de Grâce " and we don't even celebrate it in my familly.

Fuck Ya!

At first I thought it would be dry and brittle...but its actually juicier than Turkey made in ovens. Amazing :thumbsup

Every year I hear about amateurs starting fires trying to make that themselves :firehair

LOL
T funny, I must of have the same kind of night, i didn't even notice it :1orglaugh

Where you also at the party ?

:upsidedow

I forgot to mention something.

I HATE TURKEY. IT'S THE WORST MEAT EVER CREATED.

thank you.

I don't remember :glugglug

Compared to what we had last night I guess you're right! :winkwink:

columbus day is just another big lie. he didnt discover nothing. this country was already inhabited by the likes of cochise, sitting bull, gernimo, etc. thanks to the likes of columbus, the native american race barely coexists anymore. columbus was nothing more than a genocidal butcher. never even set foot on us soil. what he did actually set foot on is an island south of florida we now call haiti/dominican republic. wasn't til years later that after he exploited his so called finds that the colonists came over to finish the butchering. besides, lief ericson "discovered" the american continent many years prior to columbus even thinking of sailing. He wasn't given the credit he deserves because his superiors & fellow countrymen thought he was nothing more than a drunken fool with tall tales, however, in canadian provinces, archeological evidence proves that he did in fact set foot on north american soil LONG before columbus. time to reeducate america & tell them the truth. You dont hear anything at all about vikings killing natives.

Mmmmmmmmm... turkey.. I have a Butterball in the freezer waiting for Sunday for us (yes, Monday is Thanksgiving but I'm working that day so Sunday will have to do!)

Happy Thanksgiving fellow Canadians!! :pimp

Happy Thanksgiving to you too :)

spending my 1st thanksgiving alone
sent the parentson vacation.. no gf this year.. and no "friend" either

wonder what people do on thanksgiving if not eating???

Go out, have fun!