Christmas eve we had "supper" with friends from our mission. It has been our McDonald family tradition to have Trifle (an english desert with fruit, cake, whipped cream and custard) for supper on Christmas Eve. It started off on the First Christmas Shar and I were married. I was working Christmas eve and she was shoveling the never ending lake-effect snow most of the afternoon and did not have supper ready when I got home. I asked what we were eating and she said she didn't have time to make anything - all she had was the trifle we were going to take with us to my family's Christmas Eve gathering and a second bowl for Christmas Day.
"So", she said, let's eat Trifle.
"We can't" I protested.
"Why not", said Shar... "our parents aren't here, we can eat whatever we want!"
And so a tradition was born. We have Trifle for supper every Christmas eve. Only this year, people brought over veggies, chips, cookies, dips, and all sorts and sundrie of things! We had a great time lighting fireworks too. Here in Mexico they are legal, so we got quite a bunch of screamers and bottle rockets and fireworks together. Some of them were on 3 foot long sticks and flew into the air before blowing up! We had a bonfire, lit off fireworks and pretended we were shooting down Santa Claus...
A fine time was had by all!
Bonfire-ing-- a Christmas and New Years tradition in Mexico.
Here is Fellow Yugo-er Trevor Robinson from Red Deer Alberta lighting the 3 foot high sparklers.
Christmas morning started at 6:am (as per McDonald household rules) with the stocking opening and 7:00am for general gift opening...Here is Elijah getting a Technic Snowmobile LEGO set. He was extremely happy!
King Jacob finally received the proper attire for a man of his position...
And Caleb got a Batman Lego tank which he thought was not able to be purchased in North America... He was very happily surprised!!We had a good Christmas!!
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