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Continuing on my account of
Christmas in Kentucky I am amazed at the sheer amount of food that is
being purchased for consumption over Christmas. If you are likely at
all to get a sugar rush then you'll get one here for sure! Mind you
I have likely contributed to this as I went and purchased a whole load of
traditional Scottish sweets for the May household.. things like Soor
Plooms, Rhubarb & Custard, Sherbert fountains, Cinamon Balls and all kinds
of good things :-)
Seems folks in this neck of
the woods go all out for Christmas as they do of course in other parts of
the world. I don't think this is any different really other than over here
they have large families and so it must cost a small fortune to buy
everyone a present.
In the May household all
the family come over and bring over their presents to lay under the tree
so that when they all gather on Christmas Day they can have a grand
present opening. I'm told that each member of the family also gets
to open one present on Christmas Eve. As I've been adopted into the
family this Christmas I get to open one also :-)
I was talking about Boxing
Day and seems the folks over here have never heard of that (Boxing Day is
of course the day after Christmas). I also mentioned that I liked
Dates and again no-one other than Steve had heard of them. I'm
actually surprised about that as I felt that in the US you would get every
type of food available. Of course other things they don't really
have here are Curries (Indian Food) which folks in Scotland would know are
our most favourite carry out food. No Turkish Kebab restaurants either. I
can see they are seriously deprived over here <grin>
In the past 24 hours Dave,
the May's adopted son, arrived in from the Air Force and William, their
son, has just arrived in from the Army. I'll try and get a picture
of them both so you can meet them. No sooner was William in and got his
ribs cracked by all the hugs he got he was off with John and Laura to a
company party at the local cinema. So dare say we'll catch up with
his stories at a later date.
Below are some pictures I
took today...
Here are two pictures of Steve playing a
Hillbilly Santa :-)
This is a picture of Deb which I had to sneak
round the Christmas Tree to take as she doesn't like her picture taken so
I'll likely get into trouble for this one!
And if you compare the last Christmas Tree
picture you'll see that the number of presents has increased considerably!
And more cats of course! :-) |
