Well, it seems only fitting that Christmas has come early in the land where St. Nick was actually born. It is a little known fact that Father Christmas or St. Nicholaus was actually born in Turkey! Christmas has indeed come early here as you can see in the picture below. I know, I know it is not even Thanksgiving yet.. but hear me out. First, Jared's mom kindly played Santa this year and carried all of our gifts across the water. Second, it is always more fun to decorate with more people here to help. Third, we are leaving December 16th for our European Christmas vacation and in order to have the tree up at least a full month (which I believe is a requirement) the tree had to go up by the 16th of November. So up it went and we are so happy! Also, in Turkey Christmas is vastly misunderstood, even the commercial aspects are only celebrated at New Years. People even put up trees for New Years. So in order to help dispel that misunderstanding, we will take all of our Christmas decorations down before New Years. Jared and I will be celebrating our Christmas day on the 15th of December before we head out, but apparently that is not even early enough for some... Jared made us open one gift before his mom even left. I had to point out that it was only November 13th.. but that did not stop us! Thank you Mama Yates for bringing all the goodies and helping us put up the tree etc!
2 comments:
eh no big deal. Our Christmas decorations went up last weekend :)
That's wonderful. Christmas in NZ starts apparantly in Sept. when the stores start putting out there Christmas decorations. They skip Halloween, it's not fall so that too, and of course have no Thanksgiving, so they get ready early. We will be putting our 3ft. fake tree up today in hopes to enjoy it before we travel again in late Dec. as well. Good times! The only thing we need is Mama Yates to bring the goods. k
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