Thursday, December 9, 2010

An Sunny, Warm, Asian Christmas

In a few days we'll be heading to India for a wonderful change. Bindu will not have the daily school routine, and I'll be seeing a country fabled for color and culture. This will be very, very cool.

Until recently I've not realized how much snow and cold weather has been part of my holiday psychological framework. Can it be the end of 2010 and no snow on the ground nor frosted breath in the air?

A few days ago we put up our Asian Christmas tree. The lights went on, came off. Went on, came off. Ah, then a trip to Ace Hardware. Two more times - lights on, lights off. Finally we got it right, as if there is a right. We finally called a halt to the nonsense and are enjoying bright lights and beautiful ornaments. Isn't this the way it's supposed to be?

3 comments:

Maya ♥ said...

very very nice :)
my dad tried 2 set up our christmas tree the other day. he hung all the lights and tried to plug them in while he was steppingo n them. he pulled so hard that the cord broke down the middle hahaha XD

- Maya

Michael said...

...and did you have the video camera rolling to catch your dad in the action? :-)

mh

Valentina said...

haha.. funny! Couldve been one of those most viewed vids on YouTube! We set up our tree on the 3rd of december. Its a really really REALLY OLD TREE! Its been with us for around 11 years. It used to be puffy (ish) but now its practically bold!
Hope you have a nice trip!