It was definitely a Christmas of firsts. Obviously our first Christmas in Australia and our first summer Christmas, but the whole day was a completely new experience for me. It was fun to be able to take on someone else's traditions for the day and get to experience what I think was a pretty authentic Australian Christmas.
We started off the meal (sitting together at the table, there were only 9 of us total) with a "Christmas Cracker".
A person holds each ends, pulls and it cracks when it opens. Inside you will find a little toy, a joke and a paper hat (looks a little like a king's crown). We all wore our hats while eating dinner (definitely a first). Dinner was roast duck (a first for me), turkey, carrots, potatoes, green beans, snow peas and peas. Then for dessert we had plum pudding with custard (both firsts for me).
As much as I missed being surrounded by family eating ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, rolls and heaps of side dishes and desserts it was fun to do something different and I am happy that we are able to try new things and make the best of this Australian experience. I'm hoping one of these years we will spend Christmas on the beach eating BBQ!! I hear that is a popular tradition as well!
Thinking about my family's traditional holiday meals made me wonder what your holiday meals are usually like. What do you usually have for Christmas dinner?
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The cracker and hats thing is what they do in Harry Potter. Sounds like fun. Now why don't you have pictures of the hats?! I'm disappointed. ;) Hehe.
Sometimes we've had dinner, it's become a bit of a tradition to do a huge breakfast care of Jimmy. We actually had it way late this year, like 3, so it was our 'lunch' almost like dinner, maybe 'dunch'? We often eat some of our cereal that we get for CHRISTmas from Santa randomly throughout the day.
That sounds like a really good time! :) Glad you enjoyed it! Maybe on June 25th (winter) you could have the people who shared their Christmas dinner with you over to your house for an American Christmas dinner!
Meanwhile, I'm seriously considering taking you up on your guest room offer. ;)
Wow, what an experience! That's so fun you get to experience these things while you're there. We were all by ourselves for Christmas too. Just the three of us. It was nice, but sad. I wasn't sure what to make for Christmas since it was just us, but we ended up doing ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, homemade rolls, and corn. Pecan and pumpkin pie. I'm glad you had a Merry Christmas.
Such a good idea Christy!! I am going to try really hard to remember that!
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