Saturday night in Honiara
Saturday, December 8, 2007
The girls are now on school holiday. We've had a busy week and just felt like doing something different tonight. So we went out to eat at a Chinese restaurant. That was fun but rather than just go home we decided to drive around and see the Christmas lights - ours!
We live on the edge of a valley so we drove to the other side of the valley to see if we could see our own Christmas lights. Sure enough in the distance we could just make out the colored flashing lights at our house. Decorating a house with lights is not done here so our lights are a bit of a novelty.
The other night Tim and I went to a function and as we were leaving we were surprised to see a tall evergreen tree in the distance flashing with red lights. So to night we went exploring as a family to see if we could discover where the tree was. It didn't take us too long to find the tree and along the way we were rewarded with another house with a string of lights.
Yes, it's been another exciting Saturday night in Honiara!
Labels: Christmas, Daily Life
posted by Martha @ 9:03 PM
Advent
Monday, December 3, 2007
Christmas has arrived at our house. Over the weekend we set up our Christmas tree and decorated the house.
One of our traditions is to light advent candles each Sunday of advent. I brought back some candles in our shipment from the USA, but unfortunately used them up. I've scoured Honiara and could only find some very basic white candles.
With the help of some crayons that I melted, I've managed to add a colored layer to the candles. They aren't perfect, but all things considered, we are pretty pleased with the results.
Labels: Christmas, life in the tropics
posted by Martha @ 8:42 AM
