What a Weekend!

Paty and our Classic Christmas Turkey: It Was Delicious!

Although we missed our family, friends, and the Brazilian Sun last weekend, our first Canadian Christmas was stuffed by too much fun.

We got started with our traditional dinner at December 24th midnight. We had a wonderful stuffed turkey with pasta. A Canadian red wine joined us. Great stuff! You can check some pictures from our dinner at Christmas Eve here: http://tinyurl.com/2dusomw

Besides our traditional dinner at midnight, we had planned to have another Christmas dinner. Now, invited by the the Mejiholm family and respecting the Canadian tradition, we would eat on December 25th. However, our host was not feeling well, so our dinner was postponed to December 26th, the Boxing Day.  No problem in waiting, we were rewarded with good conversations, lobster, beef, potatoes, vegetables and Canadian red wine! Again: wonderful! Pictures from our second Christmas dinner are here: http://tinyurl.com/27vsg2y

Moreover, Mejiholms gave me the book “How to be a Canadian”. According to them, I will naturally become a Canadian after reading that. They also gave the cuisine book “Make It Tonight” to Paty: wow, more food! Also, they gave us the tickets to watch our city hockey team live on January 1st!!! On ice level.

During our waiting for the December 26th dinner, we discovered that Canada celebrates the Boxing Day. First of all we thought that it was a day with some Boxing fights, but it is not. It is not a violent day; it is just the day after Christmas, when the stores offer great deals to their customers! We mean… very good deals! But, you know how students live, right? Tight budget, so we did not enjoy 2010 Boxing Day. We are already looking forward to the next one.

Also, we are looking forward to our first New Year’s holiday in Canada. Can you find out what are we going to do on that day? Guess what… Eat, drink, and party with our friends! On the first 2011 post we will tell you how it was!

We will finish this post thanking you for following us all this time. To be continued next year! We hope you all have a wonderful 2011, like our 2010!