We Have a Tree!

I never thought I would ever spend Christmas in Africa. And when I decided to move here and realized I would spend Christmas in Africa, I didn't think I would actually decorate my house for it. I had no idea I would be able to purchase decorations here. And if you asked me a couple of weeks ago whether I would be decorating my house, I probably would have told you "I don't think so" or "maybe but how and with what I don't know". But then we heard some of our friends here were selling some of their stuff because they are leaving in a month and one of those items was a Christmas tree. Whitney and I jumped at the idea and the next day we had a Christmas tree. We took it out of the box that night and put it together. Then we went to the "mall" and bought some Christmas lights, flashing ones at that (it's all they had) with no ability to plug strand to strand because the strand made a loop and so basically there is only one end and we added a few ornaments that were given to us. This week we finally bought some ribbon to put on the tree and I guess you could say it's finished. It's a little bare of ornaments, but we haven't had a chance to go out and buy some. We could go this week, but not sure that we will. But it was fun to decorate. We have stockings hanging on the wall, not by the chimney with care, but by the window with care :^) Maybe Saint Nicholas will soon be here, but only if Whitney is lucky...I'm thinking she's getting coals in her stocking.