So I thought I would just try to forget it was Christmas and that I was away from my family, and that it still feels like summertime here, but as we all know the best laid plans...
What did I do you might ask? Well, I will tell you.
December 23rd, I spoke with my family back in the states online, then went home and was asked if I wanted to make Christmas chocolates with a kit and molds that someone had sent down to my homestay mom. They turned out pretty well!
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| The finished product! |
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| Yummy! | |
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| Zahidu with the double boiler we created! |
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| Melting Chocolate |
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| Piping the details was difficult |
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| Someone got into the chocolate a little early |
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| The finished product, cute right? |
December 24th is the most exciting day of the Christmas holidays here in Nicaragua because everyone stays up till midnight waiting for the Divine Baby Jesus to show up. So after helping my homestay mother make cakes all day, orders that she had and also gifts, we went to 9pm mass in the Cathedral, then over to the other grandparents house to have cake and open some gifts. At about 11pm we came back to our house and opened more gifts and had the bread pudding I had made for the occasion. (I sure did spend a lot of my Christmas time baking and eating ha ha). Then at midnight everyone goes outside and sets off their own fireworks (you really have to be careful not to shoot your eye out or have someone else shoot it out for you). I had sparklers so we lit a few up and stood outside looking at the other fireworks going on. It was a long day but nice. I like the tradition of opening the gifts on Christmas eve, because it allowed everyone to sleep in until 10am the next day! Here are some pictures!
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| Pineapple Upsidedown cake! |
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| Bread Pudding Yummy |
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| Yule Log... yummy |
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Too be continued...
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