The History of The Jago's

Well blog  have not wrote for a while and not much I can find on the Jago name lately so heres a story of a few Brits a Japanese, a Canadian and some Americans celbrating Thanksgiving in HK.r.

When one thinks of the holiday season in Hong Kong might mean Chinese New Year. Well really anything goes in Hong Kong, they seem to celebrate every holiday I guess any excuse for a party and some drinks this goes for us.

A little history below on the events and why we all celebrate on differnent days and why the UK does not really have thanksgiving well I guess we do as as explained below its called harvest festival.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and Americans celebrate this traditional holiday with big feasts that include whole Turkeys stuffed with stuffing, , mashed potatoes and gravy, and a large assortment of fall vegetables.

Many people wonder why Thanksgiving is celebrated on a different day every year – or why America and Canada celebrate it in two different months? Well – here are the answers!

Canada’s Thanksgiving is celebrated to give thanks to God at the closing of a good harvest season. A long story short, in 1957 the Canadian Parliament federalized the holiday and stated that a general day of thanksgiving to God should be celebrated every October on the second Monday of the month. The Thanksgiving of Canada corresponds to the UK Harvest Festival. Canadians usually celebrate the weekend before the actual day of Thanksgiving with a big feast that includes family and friends.

In America, Thanksgiving was originally celebrated by the Pilgrims of Plymouth to give thanks to God for surviving their first brutal winter in New England. Each year, the pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving as thanks to God for their freedom and for their survival in New England. In 1941, President Roosevelt federalized the holiday and stated that it shall fall on the fourth Thursday in November. For many years now it has been believed that Thanksgiving was a symbol of unity between the Pilgrims and Native Americans. However, a recent research has found this myth to be false. The first thanksgiving was really only a Pilgrim’s celebration of conquering new Indian territories. Lots of Native Americans in America, have made sure to make this truth public. But the holiday has become so ingrained into American society that people just celebrate it to eat the scrumptious food! Traditional foods served on this day include stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, sweet corn, fall vegetables and pumpkin pie.

But enough of these history lessons and a little about yesterday

We decided to be a bit American yesterday and celebrate thanksgiving with a few American friends and some english mates well anything for a few drinks and nice turkey, but really anything goes here in HK thats why we had the thanksgiving dinner together and again we would not want to miss out on the turkey and all the trimmings. Due to the time difference here in hk we had the thanksgiving dinner at 7pm on Friday. It was quite fun we went to a American Italian style kids friendly resturant a bit like tgi fridays called Fat Angelo's.

Some more a pics to follow later