Merry Christmas Eve! If I was in Germany still, I'd be getting my presents tonight. In Germany Santa Claus literally shows up at your house on Christmas Eve and the little kids say a poem and Santa hands them their gifts. Now, I told my mom this and she was like "Hey! My Grandpa used to dress up as Santa on Christmas Eve too!" Surprise Suprise, he was from Germany.
In other news, Germany has federally mandated laws on how long and on what days stores can be open. When I mentioned to my kids at school that some stores were open on Christmas they didn't believe me. At all. So since being home I have investigated and found that on Christmas Day I could go get chinese takeout in West Bloomfield, I could go to the Stage Deli, I could get a slurpee at 7-11 and I could go to the Starbucks at the corner. All open, all day, on Christmas Day. I considered taking pictures of the "Open on Christmas Day" signs in the windows, but I decided that that my students were just going to have to take my word.
Ummm let me tell you there is NOTHING open in Massachusetts on Christmas. You heathens!
Posted by: mareth | December 25, 2005 at 11:20 PM
There was nothing open on Christmas Day in New Orleans, although I think a large part of it had to do with other reasons, i.e. catastrophic natural disasters.
Posted by: Lenore | December 29, 2005 at 09:23 AM