Christmas in Sicily

Buon Natale!

For Christmas Eve, we had for dinner six fishes, although it was the tradition to have seven. We had five in a fish soup, and one eel that was baked in the oven. That day we hung out with our cousins, Nina and Giona who had come down from Milan, while the grownups were going to the market to get the fish for dinner. We slept at our Nonni and Poppi's because it was Christmas Eve.

In the morning, we were allowed to open one present before our parents and cousins came. We had an orange tree on the terrace, and when they came, all our cousins and me and Rogan picked an orange off of our tree. Here is a picture of me and my Nonni getting the orange tree ready for Christmas morning.




Then we had Christmas bread and ate the oranges on our terrace, because it was really warm.

Then we went to church. We came back and opened all the presents. There was a million of them, and everyone was just running around and picking them up. Then when we thought we had opened all of them, there were a lot more. We all had a lot of fun!

The next morning, December 26th, we all decided to go to the beach, because it was warm. We went swimming and made a big sand castle that looked like Mt. Etna, and had underground tunnels in it, to funnel the water from the Mediterrenean.