Thanksgiving Dinner

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We are thinking of using the Thanksgiving long week-end to come over from Oahu and do some hard core work on the property, but I would hate to miss my favorite meal of the year. Any recommendations on where to get a traditional turkey dinner in the general Hilo area?

[mella l]

I hope you have received many e-mail offers from people for you to join them for this holiday, as you will be away from home!

Being raised in a military family, we always included a few who where between home and duty stations in our holidays. Those were the best holiday meals, interesting conversation, heartfelt appreciation, and the true sense of the Holiday sharing with those who don't have family close.



mella l

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these."

[aikahimomma]

my daughter and i went to Ken's the first year!

[kani-lehua]

while a distance from hilo, cynmkolohe(i believe) had recommended the volcano house. she usually goes there for special occasions.

"chaos reigns within.
reflect, repent and reboot.
order shall return."

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[cynmkolohe]

Great memory, Kani-Lehua.

We actually go to Kilauea Lodge--already made our reservation for this year!--but if Volcano House serves on Thanksgiving Day that would be a good option as well. We like going up to Volcano because the chilly weather makes it feel more like we remember our winter holidays on the east coast...

Website: http://www.kilauealodge.com/cgi-bin/KLod...CMairoabm8

[kani-lehua]

oops, sorry cynthia! thanks for the correction. i knew it was some place up at volcano.

"chaos reigns within.
reflect, repent and reboot.
order shall return."

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[maud gonne]

We are thinking of having a Thanksgiving potluck at our place, as a kind of overdue housewarming as well. We don't know too many folks yet, so, are any of you Puna webbers out there interested? We're in Nanawale.

[JerryCarr]

I never get to have Thanksgiving here at home. I have to go to the family ranch in Texas every year to help my 83 year old mother with her HUGE family gathering, so we have ours here the second week of December. If the weather is just right, I also get to experience Mama shooting rattlesnakes with a chrome plated 410 shotgun on her patio. (The chrome plating is a fashion touch my father thought was important when he got it for her. After all, the only thing that separates us from the lower animals is our ability to accessorize.) If they haven't had at least a couple of hard freezes to send the rattlers into their winter dens, they tend to gather on the patio to keep warm on the flagstones. She hates them and blasts away, starting at 6 a.m. Here's hoping it gets cold early in Texas this year.

Cheers,
Jerry

[Royall]

LOL!!!! Jerry you just can't imagine the image my brain painted of your Mom, out on the patio with that 410! If that was posted to You Tube you would have a winner! LOL!!!

Royall

What goes around comes around!

[Guest]

The absolute best Thanksgiving for me was as a young Marine in Singapore.
I was invited to and American expat's home. She was from Pasadena Texas.

I had the best time and it really was the most special thanksgiving.