Thanksgiving in Australia is a strange experience for an American

Fox News.com ^ | November 22, 2017 | Anna Kooiman

[Kaslin]

I’ve enjoyed Thanksgiving as an American living in Ohio, North Carolina and New York. And now I enjoy living in Australia – a wonderful place except … Aussies don’t celebrate the wonderful holiday.

This is quite understandable, given that Australia is a place far, far away – where back in the 1600s there were plenty of kangaroos, but neither Native Americans nor Pilgrims.

What do you think of when you smell apple cinnamon and pumpkin spice? It’s something we don’t even have to think about as Americans, right? The holiday season, of course

I’m willing to bet you’re getting a warm, fuzzy feeling inside your tummy this very second. It’s why Starbucks makes such a killing this time of year selling their festive lattes. Those tempting aromas mean Thanksgiving is here and Christmas is just around the corner.

Let’s continue my game for a moment. What do you think of when you smell coconut sunscreen and salt in the air? Again, as Americans our mental rolodexes flip to beach vacations in the months of June, July and August.

OK. Now flip everything you know on its head. Let’s travel to another hemisphere. Let’s go to the wonderful land of Oz! A faraway land where the seasons and corresponding months are just the opposite of all I’ve ever known.

A land where Australian kids don’t grow up making pilgrim hats out of construction paper or making turkeys out of their handprints in preschool. What a shame!

I’m currently living in the Land Down Under and have a bun in the oven. I only have a couple months left until our due date, so as you can imagine – between making stroller, crib and car seat decisions – I’ve also been giving a lot of thought to family traditions.

[Oztrich Boy]

And they call the 4th of July, July 4th. :)

Actually we call it 4th of July (And wonder why it's the only date you manage to say in the correct order)

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

Here in Germany, it is just another Donnerstag (Thursday). We had the day off, and the USO did a very nice Thanksgiving dinner on post.

We just had to cope with the usual heavy workday traffic. L.A. traffic jams have nothing on a good Stuttgart stau.

[USS Alaska]

Another person who cannot take my opinion and attacks me personally. Chill out.

When you call her stupid, it's an opinion, when I call you stupid, it's an attack.You've become more reasoned when there are people with other views, taking the opposite side.

You then hide behind the cloak of "personal attack" that is cowardly, 'Can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen'.

Whale away lost ID98.

PS: I've been here since '76, but Jim lost my original handle.

[going hot]

PS: I've been here since '76, but Jim lost my original handle.

OK then. You predated everyone.

:-)

[Trailerpark Badass]

That accent, though, has to be the world’s most annoying.

[SoCal Pubbie]

“Whether taking a stroll in New York City’s Central Park, tailgating for a football game in the Buckeye State, or leaf peeping in the North Carolina mountains, the fall air always seemed to glow.”

It was 83 degrees in Huntington Beach on Thanksgiving.