The holidays are upon us and Belize City is coming alive with the Christmas spirit, fi true! When it started getting cool in October everyone said “It’s Christmas time!” and the decorating and home renovations began. Stores are holding their annual Christmas raffles, shops and houses are decorated with lights and trees, and people are busy shopping for gifts.Our schools held their Christmas parties on December 11th and the children enjoyed a day filled with dancing, turkey dinner, ice cream and surprises. They came decked out in their colored clothes to show off their style. It was a fun day and yet again, we came home stuffed with more plates of food as all the teachers like to share their meals and treats with us.
Children celebrating at St. Luke:
Silliness at Trinity:
Today, we watched the annual Love FM Christmas Parade where our very own Mr. Stanley from PC plays Santa! The parade is great - it starts right near our house and features several school marching bands and ends with Santa atop a firetruck. It’s so fun to share the holidays with our Belizean family, but we certainly have our families and friends from home in our hearts and hope you all have a safe and joyous holiday season – and that you stay warm up north :)
This Santa tosses beads into the crowd - he tossed some to Ginnie, but she gave them over to one of her students who happened to be right next to us
The marching bands were excellent
Santa atop the fire engine tosses candy to the crowd. Isn't it great to see Santa passing by all the palm trees? Christmas in the tropics is quite fabulous!
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