Christmas...

We celebrate it on the 24th. Also we open the presents in the evening.

-Fred

I can honestly say I don't celebrate it at all. Not anymore. I used to growing up, but now that I'm out on my own Christmas to me is just a day where everything is freakin closed.

A blazing hot summer day for Chrismas as usual, probably spent at the beach... picnic food and BBQ.

-Cub. =o)

Cubase wrote:A blazing hot summer day for Chrismas as usual, probably spent at the beach... picnic food and BBQ.

-Cub. =o)

Wow, now that is different... I've never heard of Christmas and BBQ going together... I love Grilled foods...

Does it seem strange to you all that all the Movies done about Christmas have it all cold and snow on the ground and whatnot???

I put up Christmas lights. This year the house is looking real nice. I'll post a picture when I get back in town.

Bafitis wrote:

Cubase wrote:A blazing hot summer day for Chrismas as usual, probably spent at the beach... picnic food and BBQ.

-Cub. =o)

Wow, now that is different... I've never heard of Christmas and BBQ going together... I love Grilled foods...

Does it seem strange to you all that all the Movies done about Christmas have it all cold and snow on the ground and whatnot???

Yeah... it's a bit strange... but although I have never had a white Christmas, I feel like an expert on the subject and its tradition from the amount of White Christmas movies around! haha!

-Cub. =o)

I wonder if Santa changes clothes before changing Hemispheres???

We celebrate the same way Fred does. On the 24th and presents are unwrapped in the evening on the 24th.

As for traditions I guess it all depends on who you ask since every family may have their own kind of christmas traditions. One of the traditions that my family has regarding Christmas Eve is as follows:

- We have a nice dinner with either roasted duck, goose, pork or turkey which is followed up by our typical dessert called Ris á la mande (rice pudding with whipped cream and almonds, served with cherry sauce). Delicious dessert.
- After dinner all candles on our christmas tree are lit and presents will be placed under the tree. We'll then sing a few christmas carols while dancing around the tree
- We then unwrap our presents. However, in order to make sure that everyone gets to see what each present contains, we each get one present and wait our turn while one unwraps his/her present. Normally we go in turn starting with the youngest. When all have unwrapped a present, a new present will be given to each and the same procedure continues until there are no more presents. That may take a few hours, but it's really nice and cozy

See some of Denmarks traditional christmas dishes here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ch ... es#Denmark

Well, the Swedish christmas tradition isn't that different from Freds and neotrams. We also celebrate on the 24:th and open the presents on the evening of the 24:th. And since we have young children in the family the presents are delivered by Santa himself.

- We have a nice family-dinner with Christmas-ham, meatballs, pickled herring, kale, spare ribs and several different kinds of food. Here are most of what's on the Swedish christmas table.
- After the dinner we just spend some time together eating candy, drinking coffee, watching a bit of TV, playing a game...
- All of a sudden there's a knock on the door and it's Santa. Carrying a big bag on his back he's delivering all the presents so we make room for him on the couch and he reads the labels on the gifts and hands them out to everyone. And after the gifts are handed out Santa leaves, one of the older male members of the family magically re-appears ( ) and we open our gifts.

We have a celebration on the 24th, but only because it is my mother's birthday... Otherwise we do the morning of the 25th, like you see in most movies...

Though I remember hearing somewhere that Jesus was actually born some time in January...