With the upcoming holiday season, it is not hard to find a valid reason for excitement. The holiday season is a celebration that invites the new year and encourages new possibilities from Thanksgiving, a holiday full of food and family to Christmas, the national holiday famous for gift giving, music and decorations.  

The whole snowy season through the months of November and December is an annual excitement for people. But why? Is it the feeling of community and gathering from Thanksgiving? Or the cheery excitement brought by Christmas? 

According to an online survey conducted by YouGov, 36% of voters voted Christmas as their favorite day. In other words, it shows that one third of Americans voted Christmas as their favorite day of the year, while thanksgiving was voted second at 27%. However, when asked which holiday they enjoyed more than the average day, Thanksgiving was ranked higher at 47%, while Christmas was only 34%. 

Though they are close, how does the Eagle High community feel about the holidays? And how might our location affect their opinions? According to sophomore Kaylee Bachmeier, there is no competition. 

 “Christmas is the best holiday of the year. There is music and the lights are so pretty.”  Bachmeier said, “Christmas is a holiday for the whole world, it’s the day Jesus was born. But Thanksgiving is only American.” 

In the opinion of Eagle High college and career counselor, Bria Bodine, Christmas is not all that it is cracked up to be.  

 “Just the like history as far as like memories go for me. I just have a lot of memories of Thanksgiving with my family,” said Bodine. For her, memories make the holiday. 

“My bubby, which is my grandma, used to always take me out and buy me an outfit to wear every year at Thanksgiving dinner,” she said. “So, I always loved doing that because I get to go shopping and then it was just this big like feast and there was always two additional families that would come.”