My school literally kicks us all out the Wednesday before Thanksgiving until Sunday at noon after it. You don't gotta go home but you can't stay here!
Anyway, I'd be going home either way as I'm only 40 minutes away. It's a small holiday for us - just my mom and dad, brother, granmother, and an uncle (plus myself, of course
) and usually we don't make turkey since 3 of the 6 don't eat it. Last year we had a roast loin of pork; this year we may do a roast beef.
I'm really bummed out this year - every year since we've had licenses, my best friend and I have done Black Friday together, and done it intensely. We get to the outlet shopping center by 11 (it opens at 12), shop there til about 1:30-2, then go to the diner to get coffee and something to snack on. Then we go to the mall, sleep in the car for a while then shop when the mall opens up! We're usually home by 10:30-11.
This year we're not doing it, for the first time in 4 years :[ I'm happy that she's married and living happily with her husband, but as he's in the Coast Guard they just got moved to their first base and aren't coming home for the Thanksgiving holiday. Now I have no one left to go Black Friday shopping with ... of my other two closest friends, one goes with her dad every year and the other is abroad in France.
It just doesn't feel like Thanksgiving this year ..