The Christmas Season

We kicked off our family christmas season yeseterday.  We went into town yesterday to have lunch with friends and then after lunch we walked into Old Town Square to look at the Christmas markets, the christmas tree, to pet the animals and to get one of many Trudlo that we will eat this year.  Old Town Square was beautiful as always.  The markets are not my favorite in Europe since the majority of the stalls are food but it is still nice to look at and we do enjoy Trudlo.  The girls were more excited this year about the animals than in years past so we stopped and let them pet the horse. 

Ali did not want to pet the horse but then changed her mind later so we headed back to the horse again so Ali could pet it.  We assumed she didn't want to pet the horse becuase she was afraid.  It turns out she just didn't want the horse to eat her trudlo!  After making our way around the market we headed home to buy our Christmas tree.  We went to our local garden center and chose our tree.  It was the same man as last year at the garden center and he was very friendly.  After tieing the tree on top of the car we drove home without any sudden stops or turns so we managed to keep the tree on top of the car.  We had some difficulty getting the tree into the stand so we had to get the saw out and go to work.  It didn't really seem to help much though since we just could not get the stnad to hold the tree upright.  We eventually gave up and we tied the tree up to the door handle behind the tree. The kids were very excited to decorate so we got through all the decorations very quickly.  The girls danced and sang all around the tree once it was finished. Now our tree is up and we are living in a winter wonderland of snow with snow forecasted for the next ten days.  We are definitely ready for Christmas!