Let the Celebrations Begin!!!

This weekend kicked off the start of my Christmas celebrations. Saturday morning, I got to do a little Christmas shopping and then Lindsey and I met my friends Jonathan, Kelley, and Kiran at the German Christmas Market. The market had many vendors from stores all over my city. And because it was a "German" market there was lots of sausage and beer. I purchased one Christmas gift and I actually bought myself something! I bought a berry colored beaded necklace. I am very satisfied with my purchase.

After this, Lindsey and I hopped over to the American embassy to watch Jeremy (a kid on our team) play baseball at his tournament. Lindsey and I have really come to enjoy the baseball field. I mean you can't get any more American than a baseball game...? Oh! And they had Dr. Pepper again!! Sweetness.

After the game, Lindsey and I headed off to Michelle's house for our single girls Christmas party. Someone brilliantly decided that we should have soup to counterbalance the large amounts of sweet that we would want to consume. Sadly enough, we are all not used to sweets so we barely touched them. But the peanut butter fudge, oatmeal cream pies, gingerbread cookies, and magic bars were DE-Lish!!

Now there isn't a Christmas party without some type of gift exchange. In the winter, Indian women wear shawls (like in our pic) not jackets. So we decided to have a shawl gift exchange. We kind of felt like old women, but in India it works and was a brilliant idea! So here we are with all our shawls. Aren't they bea U tiful?

I never drank Applee Cider or Wassle in the states at Christmas but supposedly its a huge tradition. Who knew? So Karen made some for us... it was pretty good, but very very sweet.

So one thing that is rare in India is feeling cute, pretty, or really just female. When any of us do make attempts to look nice we get a lot of unnecessary attention. But everyone looked really beautiful yesterday. So we gave our self Barbie names. Here they are from left to right.

Lindsey- Manhattan NY Barbie

Me- Confident College Barbie

Karen- After Work Party Barbie

Mandy- Urban Barbie

Lindsey- Gap Barbie

Today (Sunday) I attended my first Christmas program. Mandy was suppose to sing a solo so we all came out to support her. There was lots of dancing, drama, singing, preaching, and hip hop dancing!

Oh! And today I got my first Christmas card. Thanks Tammie. My Christmas survival package from my awesome sister Shannon should be delivered by Santa aka FedEx man Tomorrow!!!

Much more celebrating to come!!