With one week to go until Christmas, most of the boxes from our Playmobil Advent Calendar have been opened. We also got our first real snowfall today, the kids are already on vacation, we had hot chocolate, and and as a result, we're in full Christmas mode.
Here is the scene that is being revealed day by day.
Our arch in the dining room window as seen from the snowy street. These Christmas arches are very popular here. The arch goes back to a tradition of miners, who hung their burning lamps in an arch over the mine entry hole before they started their last shift before Christmas. These arches are sometimes lit with candles and express the longing of light by the miners who did not see very much daylight during their workdays.
David got me this last year because I whined so much about not having one.We'll need to get ours rewired once we move home.
Christmas decorating is much simpler here than in the U.S. -- an arch in the window and maybe a few lights in a window or two. I took this photo of our neighbor's house from our bedroom window. The building attached onto the right is a huge barn. We have horses and ponies getting walked from the barn, up our street to the fields across the way every morning and back again in the evening.
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