Dreaming of a White Christmas

Usually I am a fiend for Christmas. The whole bit.. lights, trees, presents, baking,
cards... Everything! I thought I would be a sucker for European Christmas, but
today was the first time ALL MONTH that it has even felt slightly Christmasy to
me. It wasn't the advent calendars, nor the giant christmas trees, nor the mulled
while, carols service or even the snow, but a random moment, walking through
the metro listening to Mariah Careys Christmas carols (really, are there any
others that even make the cut compared to hers?!) and it hit me: If I have spent
Christmas the same way, every year of my life, eating prawns, going to the
beach, with all my family, etc, then of course it isn't going to feel quite right over
here in the snow.
All of those European things might be Christmas traditions, but they aren't my
Christmas traditions. That doesn't mean it isn't Christmas though,it is just a time
for new memories,new traditions, new foods, new friends, and a new
appreciation for new ways of doing things. Like fondue... but more on that
another day...

 (However I am a little bit excited to come home and go to the beach still)