turkey day

It will be my first time celebrating this harvest-based / time of native american thanks festival in the US, several people have enquired as to how Australians celebrate Thanksgiving, Urban Dictionary gave the best answer.

Australian Thanksgiving

In Australia, the Australian Thanksgiving all started with the great "Pillage The Wallaby's Run". This event was called upon by the Prime Minister on May 1, 1657, to boost the country's morale after the tragic Kangaroo shortage in the prior year. The Wallaby run transformed into the Australian Thanksgiving where all cities congregate to hold a massive wallaby hunt the night before, and feast on the day of Australian Thanksgiving. Nowadays, the traditions have slowly faded and people will just purchase already prepared wallaby dinners from their local grocer.

I'm sure glad I have these wallaby's already in the freezer for Australian Thanksgiving!

The 2nd most important thing about this national holiday, is that the majority of the population gets the following day off. "Black Friday" a national holiday dedicated to consumerism, and recovering from eating too much flightless bird, calabaza and starch.

So in summary I get two paid days off work for eating and buying shiny shit.
Watching football seems to feature heavily as well.
America, what more can I say.