Merry Christmas!

Christmas is celebrated very differently here.  The major day is Christmas Eve where they wake up early to start making tamales.  I tried to help out with the whole process to learn how they do it, and I’ll post a few pictures later.
Towards evening people make small fires on the curb in front of their house and everyone hangs out around it and says hi to neighbors. At midnight the whole country goes crazy with fireworks.  It’s an amazing sight! Everyone then eats tamales and drinks a hot fruit punch drink. After that they open presents and then play games and talk until everyone’s too tired to stay awake. We were up until 4!  On Christmas day everyone sleeps late and just relaxes.
We hope that you have a merry Christmas!  It is a great time of the year to reflect on how wonderful God is to us and how incredible His love and blessings are for us.
Coco with sparkler Edwin & I with fireworks Heidi & Manuel with fireworks Midnight Tamal Veronica & Edwin Coco opening present Yuli & me Coci & Cristi Heidi & Masga Veronica with present Mama Serbelia with Shawl Looking at photo book