Christmas in Mexico

This year in the UAE, Eid & National Day celebrations are within a week of each other. In a rare display of forward planning, ZU (where Ahmed works) announced that the university would be closed from the 2nd until the 14th of December. Once upon a time, in another dream, we pictured going to New Zealand during that break. That was the dream where Maya and I were already back living in the UAE. Anyway, that didn't happen, and since Ahmed would have gone crazy sitting alone in Abu Dhabi while we're still in Mexico, he booked his fifth flight out to Tijuana for this year.

So with Christmas preparations in full swing around us - carols in the supermarkets, Christmas trees for sale, the general red and white theme - we set the date for our family Christmas: Sunday the 7th.



This was probably the easiest, most stress-free Christmas I've ever experienced. We just stopped and bought a tree from the side of the road, and I'd seen some beautiful tin tree ornaments a few weeks earlier. The Red Cross thrift shop produced a stocking. The supermarket was nothing like the crazed events of pre-Christmas madness in NZ. I guess celebrating on the 7th December has its huge benefits.



Menu: Croissants & fruit for breakfast. Maya enjoyed sucking on pieces of melon too. Dinner was baked salmon, roasted beets, sweet potatoes, pumpkin & carrots, green beans, peas & coriander. A walnut praline cake and icecream for dessert. Yum!