Saturday, November 22, 2008

Christmas begins!


we put up our Christmas tree today (satuday)! it was so great!!!!! laure and i wanted to do it so that we didnt have to spend a lot of money. she doesnt want to stay in belgium and i dont know how long ill be here. we saw fake trees for like 60 and 90 euros. PRETTY RIDICULOUS!

today was the day we had time to spend looking for a tree and decorations. since there are no real trees available right now we decided to go with fake. (ive never had a real tree before...one day!)
we found a tree and ornaments for not so cheap! we ended up having a beautiful tree for under 75 euros. that is pretty unbelieveable granted all things here are outrageously priced.

we put on some Christmas music and had a great time sharing in this experience of putting together and decorating our tree!

i was also able to put up the nativity scene that used to be my grandfather's. he used to put it up every year! when he passed away in May, i asked my mom if i could have it. luckily no one else had requested it. so, now it is here in belgium! from brasil to the states (but not put up) to belgium!

its been a hard year, but i think i might do a resume of the year at the end of december. hope you are well. thanks for reading!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The Christmas tree looks pretty but, the picture is a little too dark for us to really appreciate it. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day tomorrow.