Here's a picture of the girls decorating their own Christmas tree upstairs in our house. They decided to pick out their own tree and put some of their decorations on it. Guess what color they decided to use as their main color? Purple!! Purple? For Christmas?? Oh well, to each her own. Maybe one could argue that purple
is the color of royalty and we
are celebrating the birthday of the King!
Most Hungarians don't put up their Christmas tree until Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve is a huge family day where they gather for a big meal and decorate the tree together. So the American custom of putting up a tree early in December is very different to this culture. Let us know some of your Christmas traditions. We would love to know how your family celebrates the birth of Jesus.
Christmas morning 2005. Celebrating in Budapest the birth of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ!
Christmas Eve spent with Shay's parents and our BSF team members. We enjoyed being together.
Shay's parents, Dave and Carolyn Beach, came to visit for Christmas. Here the "girls" are in a McDonald's near Vienna, Austria. We stayed a couple of days in Vienna celebrating Christmas and returned in time to celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in Budapest.
During the Christmas holidays, we bundled up and went into Budapest to visit the outside Christmas market. It was so cold that day! Alot of the booths have handmade Hungarian crafts and some booths have delicious food. A few days before Christmas, a live nativity was set up. Camels, donkeys, and actors portraying the characters of the Christmas story. We rejoiced to see Christmas celebrated this way!
