Thanksgivikkah and a British Invasion

Last week, an old housemate stopped by with his fiancee. They were greeted with -6 Celsius weather not counting the bitingly cold wind chill factor. We warmed up their extremities with potent cocktails, again at PDT and some yakiniku at Gyukaku. I just need another 220 points to hit the 500 point target and a free voucher of $25. (I'll telling you, it's a lorra meat I've eaten to get to 280 points).

Thursday was Thanksgiving Day and for the first time for many, many years (the next will be in 2070-something), it was also the first day of Hanukkah, hence the Thanksgivikkah tag that has been rife on FB. 16 of us piled into our Brit friends' apartment where we proceeded to eat our body weight in anything we could lay our hands on. It's definitely good practice for Christmas.

The vibe in the run-up was also Christmas-like. There was definitely the holiday spirit and the roads have been calm. Yesterday, we walked along Brooklyn Heights promenade towards Brooklyn Bridge. There was a definite family air to the place, which I've not felt there on previous visits.

Strangely, the consensus amongst the group of Thanksgiving orphans was that Christmas was still the bigger holiday in America, which contradicts what I had thought all along. I had always thought that Thanksgiving was the Big Holiday. Having said this, as the Boy rightly pointed out, that's just one group of folks, so it would be interesting to do a straw poll.

Friday saw the arrival of Mr Hangover and another good friend from Blightly. We have played skeeball and arcade games, gone to a cocktail bar in Midtown East and then for a delicious curry with three other Brits so this week has been a veritable British Invasion. Off for the quintessential NY brunch now...