Happy thanksgiving!

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. A typical US holiday which we don't celebrate in Europe. This morning when driving to work I was struck by how big a deal it is. The city was extremely busy, similar by the madness we see around Christmas and New Year: everyone is out on a shopping spree. Traffic is congested because people visit familie and friends to devour stuffed turkey's. In the office we have a big argument (friendly be it) between the only American guy in our cubicle and 2 canadians, the latter claim their fellow country men were the first to celibrate Thanksgiving. Canadian Thanksgiving is a couple of weeks earlier too. So actually these Canadian guys take best of 2 worlds and celebrate twice. Anyways, we decided to flee the city and are heading for a hopefully quite long weekend in the Big Sur, Monetery and Carmel area. We planned a visit to the worldrenown Monetery Aqaurium, will of course stop for a coffee on Lucia Lodge's deck overlooking the Pacific and hope to spot some migrating whales from the shore since it is the time of the great trek of the whales.

Back on sunday!