Christmas 2005

Christmas come and Christmas gone...well, if you are like most Americans, this is pretty much it...but not for this old European! Coming from Sweden where Christmas is a 3 day event, it really was a shock the first time I spent the Holidays here in America. But as part of a Global community, we adjust and enjoy...But you can imagine the excitement when we discovered that in Egypt, Christmas could be strechted a little further...because Christmas in Egypt looked like this....the Catholics celebrated Christmas on the 24th, the Americans on the 25th...and the Egyptian Coptic Christians on January 7th...(and the Armenians on January 6th). That's a whole lot of Christmases....and we didn't mind...it's a nice GRAND holiday! And we roll with it all...so here at the Thurmans house the tree stays up beyond it all.