Christmas is really in the air! Christmas music playing in the mall, Christmas parties filling up the calendar, long sunny days, ice cream, picnics, lots of fruit coming into season – you know, all the classic indicators of Christmas.
Truth is, we really can’t get used to this whole tropical Christmas thing. We’ve been to 3 Christmas parties (one with barbeque and slip-n-slide), attended Carols in the Park (accompanied by ice cream and fireworks), reaped our treasures from Christmas crackers, but it just doesn’t feel like Christmas – especially with family far away. And we’ve discovered that most Aussies don’t know ‘Grandma got run over by a reindeer,’ so we’ve enlightened them (… and shocked them with our morbid sense of humor – although they really can’t talk).
Our friend Maria (originally from Peru) recently said something about how it feels like Christmas. I guess it all depends on what you grow up with, because for us, Christmas is snow and fireplaces and family crowded in a warm kitchen and Christmas lights lighting up the dark evenings.
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