As Christmas approaches, so do the holidays and the inevitable excitement of spending Christmas with friends and family.
Luckily for us, Marcel and Belinda have been able to get some time to come up from DC during the Christmas period. It will be good for all of us to share the Christmas spirit, even if that doesn't include having beer and prawns next to the pool. In the US, the beer's no good, the prawns are called shrimp, and the pools are probably frozen over by now. Either way, it will be great fun. It looks like there's not a snowflake's chance in hell (literally) that we'll have a white Christmas this year. The weather's been quite warm, relatively speaking, having only been below freezing about 6 days so far. Rain yes, snow no. Maybe next year, or the year after...
On the sad side, nobody wishes anybody a Merry Christmas here. It's a more generic Happy Holidays. If you thought political correctness was crazy in Australia, it's totally out of control here. You don't wish people Merry Christmas for fear that it will offend their Jewish or Muslim sensitivities. As a result, nobody gets a true Christmas. Even the advertisements on TV advertise holiday specials. It's almost like Christmas is an offensive word, not to be used under any circumstances.
If I didn't know better, I'd swear that Christmas isn't even just around the corner. Maybe it's not; perhaps they celebrate Christmas in the middle of summer too, just like back home. That actually makes sense; around June I'll start spreading my Christmas cheer!
Regardless, we'll be having a great Christmas at home, so MERRY CHRISTMAS!
2 comments:
I've got my fingers crossed that we'll get 12 inches of snow for Christmas; either via the clouds or bittorrent.
See.... I'd be going around and shouting, in my best Aussie accent, "Merry Christmas!" (oh, and wear a bullet-proof vest...)
xx S.
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