Christmas in AUSTRALIA........
Santa still wears his red suit with long trousers, and big warm coat Once though, I am sure I saw him wearing shorts and a hawaiian shirt.
We still sing all the classic carols such as Silent Night, Jingle Bells and my favorite "Oh Holy Night", after all who does not love a classic carol.
We love to decorate with snowmen and penguins and all the wintery things that you in the snowy areas use. I guess we haven't come up with anything we like as much yet.
For lunch/dinner, some people still have a traditional hot meal of roast meats and vegetables, and fruit pudding.
My family have cold roasted turkey, beef, chicken and ham that we cook the day before and serve cold, along with salads such as asparagus with bacon and a sour cream dressing, pasta salad, corn salad and potato salad. For dessert we have hot pudding with threepences in it, ice cream cakes and trifle. For drinks we have sparkling cider and a fruit punch.
Alot of our traditions come from the fact that a lot of our ancestors originated from Britain and we continue these traditions. When I was growing up it was always a hot meal at Christmas because my dad liked that, but after he passed away we made things easier on ourselves and came up with what we have now.
It is still a very special time, we put out water and carrots for the reindeer to eat, we give Santa biscuits and a cool drink of juice, or soft drink.
We get up very early and open our gifts with as much excitement as any one else. we eat, have an afternoon nap, sit outside in the sun, and then have dinner.
Some people go to the beach on Christmas day but we do not have a beach near us, so we have never done that.
On boxing day, we get together for another meal, much more casual and we eat left overs and the Christmas nuts go through their notebooks to make note of what worked and what we can change for next year.
Hope this gives you a little hint of what Christmas is like in the southern hemisphere
