Thanksgiving ’06

Sometime in the late ’90s my family began having a Thanksgiving Day costume party. No one really remembers why this tradition started but it became a fixture of thanksgiving at my parents house.

While eating Thanksgiving dinner we ask yes/no questions to figure out who the characters are. You don’t have to just sit and let the questions come though. People usually stay in character during the whole meal, using any mannerisms the character would be known by.

There is only one rule: You are not supposed to put your costume together before thanksgiving day. But I do suspect that some secret planning is going on in advance:-) If there was a second rule it would say that you cannot be disqualified for planning ahead…as long as it is in secret.

This year had some very creative characters. A group photo is at the bottom.

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Detective Poirot

Thursday – Not the Daniel Defoe character, Thursday is related to the other days of the week.

Samuel in ten years

Clarence –Our Norwegian grandfather

Huckleberry Finn

Jack Nicholson

The constellation Orion

The Secret Service guy who carries the football for the president

Custers Last Stand – Custer was hoping we would ask what was up with the music stand. Then ‘he’ could say “oh, that’s my last one” 🙂

Enjoy.

Maybe someday I will find photos from past years and try to put them up as well.