Belated Merry Christmas and Happy & Healthy 2012! May everyone have a wonderful 2012, I know I'm in for some adventure this year :).
I had a wonderful holiday season here with my second family in South Africa. While I missed my American family & friends so much, my heart was happy because I was surrounded with wonderful people who made me feel right at home.
I was feeling a bit let down by the South African holiday effort. Sure there was Christmas songs playing here and there, and psycho shoppers at the mall, but it was just really lacking that holiday coziness that comes with the dropping temperatures in New England. Then we grabbed some wine and a few blankets and spent a lovely little evening at Carols by Candlelight on the Vergelegen wine estate. Good friends, chipper carols, and pretty candles made for one beautiful evening.
On the 24th of December I celebrated my first German Christmas, because Germans apparently go against the grain and celebrate on the 24th (?). It was quite odd opening Santa's presents on Christmas Eve and waking up Christmas morning slightly disappointed by the lack of excitement, nonetheless it was a wonderful German Christmas.
Christmas Day was spent just a little differently than how I have normally spent Christmas with nothing other than a Christmas pool party of course!
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