So I started preparation early. I found a wonderful store in the Marais that has everything you would need for an American Thanksgiving, the name says it all "Thanksgiving in Paris." So we hike over from the 16th Arrondisement to the 4th and preorder our turkey. It's a lovely little shop and full of food stuffs that you miss - barbecue sauce to salsa, cereal to pop tarts. Even has Dr. Pepper!
We always invited lots of people to share Thanksgiving with us - our motto is no one should be alone on Thanksgiving and the more the merrier. So this year should be no different, except for the fact that we don't exactly have the apartment geared towards entertaining. Oops - once the headcount was done it turns out that we invited over 17 people! And I had to upgrade the turkey! Thank God one of our friends (whom we had invited) has a bigger place so we adjusted our plans and moved locations - they provided the space and we would cook the turkey, cranberry sauce, green beans and potatoes. And in true Thanksgiving tradition, there was plenty of food, plenty of laughs and plenty of thankfulness.