I don't know if I'll ever get used to seeing Christmas decorations on palm trees... it still seems unreal that we're in December but yet there isn't a hint of snow or even cold weather. As a matter of fact, the temperature is climbing higher everyday as we're now breaking 30 degrees daily. Unfortunately there almost still the same amount of commercialism, I wonder what Christmas would be like without it. The local mall has Christmas kiosques and even a gift-wrapping station like the boy scouts and girl guides have, let's not forget the obnoxiously big tree (with fake snow of course) and winter-wonderland display. It makes me giggle every time we pass the news paper vendor on the street and he's wearing a Santa hat, it's my daily reminder that Christmas is coming... faster than I know. I try to picture what Christmas looks like here in Uruguay, there's no toboggans, over-dressed children who can barely move in their snow suits, Christmas light competitions, snow men or festive Tim Horton's cups... I'm excited because even though I don't have the things I'm used to, I might get to decorate my own palm tree (I have to try to convince the neighbors I think, because we don't have any), to spend Christmas day having a pic-nic on the beach, to eat delicious asado and churizos from the coal-bbqs late Christmas eve, to drink my hot chocolate (yes... it's a must worldwide) under the scorching sun Uruguayan sun...
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