Idas exchangestudent year : My first American thanksgiving!

Haven't been too good at blogging lately, but i will try and do my best to catch up now.
Okay so last month it was Thanksgiving, we got of of school on the 22 of november and got back again the 2nd. My family and i went to a bay house in Galveston with another family. We lived in a little cute bay house 500 m. from the beach, it was really nice. We had to take a little ferry to get to the island and it was just a nice and peaceful place. The weather was really cold that week, but the sky was clear and the sun was still out. We didn't really do much, we pretty much just hung out and chilled.
On the day of thanksgiving we began the morning with watching the Macy parade on the TV from New York, that was a really big deal, it was a huge parade. After that we watched football, and just went for a walk on the beach. In the evening we started cooking all of the lovely food. Of course we had turkey, ours were deep fried. We had ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, green been casserole, cranberry sauce and rolls. For dessert we had Pumpkin pie and cheesecake, yum that is sooo good! The food was really good, actually so good that i ended up changing into sweatpants cause i was so full. After that we all had to make a little "speech" that was really cute. I said that i was really thankful for my host family for opening their home for me and just being able to be there with, i also said that i was was thankful for my parent, that they let me do this and support me in it 100%. In the evening we played scatagories. The day after it was black friday, but my host parents didn't really do all the shopping and stuff, so instead we went to go see the new Hunger Games movie, "Catching Fire". It was a really good movie, i was so impressed and surprised during the whole movie. So al in all it was just a relaxing week, with a lot of great food, nice games and beautiful view.