When I think about past Christmases that I have had, I always think of my favorite Christmas as everyone would, when I went somewhere completely out of tradition of what we normally do. Normally we have a Christmas at home where we go over my grandmas and open presents in the morning after breakfast but that year, we went to Puerto Rico with my Aunt, Uncle, and Cousin. Yes, for one glorious year we traded in the freezing snowy winters of Michigan for the warm tropics of the Atlantic Ocean. Sun, and beaches galore. It was amazing.
That Christmas, it was different. My cousin and her family are Jewish and celebrate Hanukah but they were very happy to help us keep our tradition of going to church. We usually go to mass of Christmas Eve but we went on Christmas day. We had breakfast, got dressed up in sun-dresses and went to a mass at a small catholic church near our resort. The church was tiny compared to ours and the Priest announced to the clergy that he had a cold and wanted to speed up the mass. The mass instead of being and hour was quickened by the ill priest to a little more then half an hour!
After, we went to lunch in the near-by small town at Wendy’s. This was an obvious change from our Christmas dinner. We had French fries and burgers instead of ham and other traditional food. We then “celebrated” by swimming in the ocean and pools and relaxing. We had gotten our presents before we left and got gift cards as a presents that day. It was a fun and different way to spend Christmas and I want to go back some day to spend another Christmas under the sun!
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