I don’t know what your Christmas traditions are, however I can tell you a bit about mine, and how they have become after mixing cultures.
Being a kid, Christmas was exciting! You are waiting to open the gifts while the adults take too long to get ready for the dinner, talking to each other at the table while the kids run crazy around to start opening the gifts.
However in recent years, since I am not a child anymore, Christmas is something that I have started to use to relax, I don’t really like the crazy hustling and bustling of Christmas, to be running around buying so many gifts all too close to Christmas.
That's what I have liked about my Christmas and New Years experience here in México. A note however, I know that different families have different traditions, some more traditional and some not, some with multiple traditions, such as food, where to hold the festivities, and so on.
E’s family is traditional in the sense that they like to hold Christmas in a specific location, on the pacific coast of Mexico. Other than that, traditions are not held much. The Christmas and New Years here tend to be with a small group of people, eating some nice food that we decided on, then comes Christmas and we play card games, chat and have a nice time. Since all are adults then maybe it tends to be more relaxing than with children.
The funny thing is to see Christmas lights, snowmen, reindeer, and the traditional Coca Cola Santa around as decorations on the pacific coast in 30°C. Talking to my family over the phone while topless after being on the beach sipping some tequila from a coconut. I really like it, I must say, and I would be more than willing to leave the coldness and the darkness of the north for a more warm and cozy Christmas.
