BIRTHDAY BOY
Today it's been Kolby's birthday, so with hoined efforts Norma and I made a cake; she made the actual cake and I made the icing. It's not the prettiest cake the world's ever seen, I will admit that, but it tasted fine just the same. The scary looking thingies standing there are birthday presents called skylanders, and are not eatable (too bad...)
Earlier today we went to the annual Winter's Xmas Dinner, so I got to meet a lot of family. Some of them I met at the bbq picnic thing this summer. My host father has eight siblings I think it was, so there was a bunch of people.
Donc... Christmas!
Just like in Sweden, all feasts are accompanied by the same foods; turkey, ham, stuffing... Och julmust på det såklart! I guess christmas celebration varies from family to family, no matter the culture. So this is how christmas was spent here:
On Christmas Eve (24th) I got up early to have a skype date with my family, watching kalle, talking and later on opening christmas presents. Not sitting squeezed in the couch, I must admit kalle actually is a bit overrated... I loved julkalendern though! (Still not too late to watch it!)
Later in the evening we had a family meal over at the grandma's house, us, the grandma and one of Normas sisters with her kids. It was nice and cozy. About half past eleven my dear host mother went with my to the midnight mass. I was actually surprised at how very similar that was to the one at home, seeing as they're catholic. Only difference was they went up and down more, sat on their knees while praying and at the holy communion only handed out wafers, no wine.
On Christmas Eve (24th) I got up early to have a skype date with my family, watching kalle, talking and later on opening christmas presents. Not sitting squeezed in the couch, I must admit kalle actually is a bit overrated... I loved julkalendern though! (Still not too late to watch it!)
Later in the evening we had a family meal over at the grandma's house, us, the grandma and one of Normas sisters with her kids. It was nice and cozy. About half past eleven my dear host mother went with my to the midnight mass. I was actually surprised at how very similar that was to the one at home, seeing as they're catholic. Only difference was they went up and down more, sat on their knees while praying and at the holy communion only handed out wafers, no wine.
Christmas Day morning we went over to the grandma once again having coffee kinda while skyping the oldest brother. He was the only one not home for christmas, since he's working at a hotel so christmas is a busy time.
After that it was present time. In this country the kids do not get to see Santa, he put's the presents under the tree and in the stocking in the middle of the night when the kids are sleeping. To be exact, half past one when we came back from church...
For christmas I got amongst other things a cow stuffy and a bunch of swedish ikea food. I mean everyone's heard of pasta-älgar, right? Also all us kids got a ticket to go see Cirque du Soleil, so the 26th we went to Montreal. Before the show we looked a bit at the boxing day sale, which is like mellandagsrean but only for one day. And then the show. I lost count of how many times I thought they were gonna fall down and die... Fortunatly, no one did and it was a great performance! But one weren't allowed to take pictures, like they so nicely said before the start photo avec flash, l'artist crash.
And just to clarify, the owl is a lense case, cool eh!
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