I know many are in Baja and many are home in other places.
We also have many different cultures represented.
We will have friends over for dinner tonight of vegetarian faire to honor our guests. This will be a first for menu but follows our normal theme of
having friends join us for the eve.
Tomorrow will be turkey and all the fixings with just our family, opening pre-baja trip gifts and supplies all day.
We'll be tucked in our nice warm home with almost a foot of snow outside.
How are you celebrating ?
Especially those in Baja ? Osprey ? Hose A ? Bruce ?
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Our traditional Christmas celebration
Dave - 12-24-2006 at 12:46 PM
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Originally posted by Diver
How are you celebrating ?
Especially those in Baja ?
I can't speak for other Jewish tribesmen but here's how we celebrate:
We take all the receipts from the cash register, pile them up on the table, hold hands and sing, "What a friend we have in Jesus".
Then we take communion. Fruitcake and Manischewitz wine coolers.Cypress - 12-24-2006 at 01:02 PM
Keeping the wood-burning heater well-fed and soaking-up the results. Way too much good food and drink, but it's Christmas and Christmas only comes once a
year.Merry Christmas!!!Diver - 12-24-2006 at 01:17 PM
Dave,
My half of the tribe lit all the candles, now the wife's half is doing christmas. This is always a really expensive season for me !!
Hose A,
I didn't know the "eat at midnight" custom.
I guess I would miss dinner as I'll be fast asleep by then.
Any traditional foods or other traditions in Baja ?
.DENNIS - 12-24-2006 at 02:27 PM
Grover -----
Maybe the candle holder is a menorah, 7 or 9 candels. Very symbolic to the Jewish faith at Hanukkah.
Im not Jewish, I was raised Catholic but, I went to Wikipedia for this.
Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas.JZ - 12-24-2006 at 02:29 PM
We are taking the boat out in the Christmas parade tonight in SC. We put several strands of old school multi-colored lights on the boat. I brought a
couple bottles of wine from the states. We'll have some good food on board. Some local Mexican friends are going with us. After the parade we'll
probably hang out in a little cove near the marina.FARASHA - 12-24-2006 at 02:56 PM
The traditional Chanukka candle holder. Wish you all Happy Holidays.Sallysouth - 12-24-2006 at 07:36 PM
We are having four generations for brunch tomorrow, a french toast bake and scrambled eggs, fruit salad, bacon and sausage.Of course there will be
Margaritas made with our Meyers lemons off our little tree.Then in a coupla days we get to celebrate again with Mija and family coming up from Baja
Sur to do a dinner, filete mignon and braised brussle sprouts, potatoes , a gratin.I can hardly wait to see my Grandgirls!!! Feliz Navidad
Nomads!!! Sally p.s. Jeez, I forgot the best part...watching the kids
open their presents!! wahoo!!!
[Edited on 12-25-2006 by Sallysouth]comitan - 12-24-2006 at 08:34 PM
Just got home to much party too much drink, its great, now only new years left everyone is going to party at the beach, big fire, much food, music,
hope the wind doesn't blow hope I can make it to midnight.Diver - 12-24-2006 at 08:52 PM
We open one present each on Christmas Eve. The kids get to pick the one they want to open. The suspense was thick enough to cut with a knife. The
wrapping came off slowly. One boogie board was opened with screams of joy and tested by skidding across the wood floors.
Another was a wonderful fold-out book on castles and castle building for the beaches of Baja.
Tomorrow will be the big day of suspense and nervousness as we open presents around and around the circle until they are all gone. Dad gets to hand
them out, one at a time. The kids will be absolutely crawling out of their skins. I will try to keep the mood to a gentle frenzy !
.Bruce R Leech - 12-25-2006 at 09:22 AM
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Originally posted by Dave
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Originally posted by Diver
How are you celebrating ?
Especially those in Baja ?
I can't speak for other Jewish tribesmen but here's how we celebrate:
We take all the receipts from the cash register, pile them up on the table, hold hands and sing, "What a friend we have in Jesus".
Then we take communion. Fruitcake and Manischewitz wine coolers.
that is good DaveOsprey - 12-25-2006 at 09:42 AM
Five O'clock will find 25 of my family, friends and neighbors gathered on my patio around a big turkey dinner with all the trimmings. After dinner
(if the triptophan in the turkey doesn't get em heading home) I might have to take out my harmonica for my traditional holiday medley of songs made
famous by people who have been dead for a long time. Works like a charm, some times I just have to show it around and they head for the front gate.Tomas Tierra - 12-25-2006 at 12:13 PM
Careful Grover!!!!
Poker with Jewish in-laws on Christmas Day sounds costly!!
Happy Everything Everybody!!!!!!DENNIS - 12-25-2006 at 03:34 PM
With a box of Noche Buena and a beach chair.DENNIS - 12-25-2006 at 03:42 PM
Hose A -----
I watched across the bay last night at a fireworks spectacular, all along the coast. It's bigger than New Year but, just like New Years Eve, it
stopped right after mid-night.
Very neat, from a distance.roundtuit - 12-25-2006 at 03:56 PM
I took the wife to the Serinadad for brunch in Mulege and had the pleasure to meet Al G. He made it to Mulege with both mirrors.
Bruce he is lookig for you bearing gifts
Christmas Eve - Christmas Day
Summanus - 12-25-2006 at 08:34 PM
Christmas Eve...with family and neighbors...a huge table set with everything to eat and drink. Toasts, singing, reading some poems, photos, eating
at least 2 times - followed by a few desserts, me recounting my largest fish caught for the hundreth time, bouncing grandkids, petting various dogs
and cats, throwing out one cat for starting a cat/dog fight, throwing out 2 grandchildren for continueing the fight, all the same as last
year...except for some new babies...both human and animal.
Christmas Day...early Mass then grilled oyster breakfast at family farm with Catherine, 96... surrounded by a crew of 7 daughters, 5 sons, in-laws,
out-laws, thier families totalling 33 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great grandchildren....and a helluva lotta dogs and
cats...and about 40 sheep to romp with in the manger outside. There were no dogfights, kidfights, or sheepfights. We had one Christmas birthday gal
today. The afternoon dinner menu was as vast as St. Nicks stomach....with yummy barbequed ribs by my wife topping the list.
... No animals were hurt in the making of this event...
Below...our youngest musican, Jack, 'plays' for his great-great grandmother, Catherine....with visions of sugar plums, perhaps?
Way too much good food and drink, but it's Christmas and Christmas only comes once a
year.
Sally p.s. Jeez, I forgot the best part...watching the kids
open their presents!! wahoo!!!