So it's December first and Costa Rica is teeming with the Christmas Spirit. Today at the dentist, instead of salsa or regge playing in the office, there was Christmas music..and the first CD that Dr. Marcos sang along with was a spanish version of all the winter in New England type of Christmas music. White Christmas crooned from the speakers in a beautiful spanish tenor, then Over the River and thru the Woods, then of course that 'tipical' Costa Rica song, Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow, followed by Winter Wonderland and so on.
It was a beautiful sunny day about 80 degrees for a change, so the whole thing was odd to me.
The stores are all decorated up now, as are houses all along the road below Bevs house. The icicle type lights are a favorite here, as are blow up snow men, reindeer and Santas.
House fronts abound with a plethora of blinking flashing lights too, strung thru the trees, draped over bushes, and tacked to every surface.
The stores are all decorated up now, as are houses all along the road below Bevs house. The icicle type lights are a favorite here, as are blow up snow men, reindeer and Santas. 
House fronts abound with a plethora of blinking flashing lights too, strung thru the trees, draped over bushes, and tacked to every surface.Occasionally there will be a creche though and for this very Catholic country that seems a bit more like MY idea of a Costa Rican Christmas...
But hay-it isn't my country and I like to celebrate as much as the next person though I gotta say that I'm not going to be able to take too much of New England Christmas music sung in spanish.
It's just wrong!
just one request sis.... that you learn the 'spanish' version of "Sisters". Just think of what a hit it'll be at all future family functions.
ReplyDeletebut sis--I already know it!--just as you know all about the internet, I sure know more spanish than "El stoppo"!!
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