I wanted to show a picture of the way many here celebrate part of the Christmas holiday. It is a long holiday running roughly from the 15th of December to Three Kings day which is in early January. Foremost it is a family holiday, with parties that involve the extended family and friends, and usually neighborhood parties as well. Here everyone knows all their neighbbors. Frequently a host will pay local musicians to come and play their instruments and usually there is a singer as well. A pig is cooked, beer is drunk. Many parties are begun with a prayer and dedicated to those who have passed during the year. Then the party begins and continues into the early morning hours. Of course people will attend Mass if they are Catholic, and for other Christian denominations... special services, most with music and song. I think this is what is known as the spirit of Christmas.
Also, and this is what the picture above is about for me, there is true innocence. The simple pleasure of being in the water with children and mothers and fathers. Family and friends being together.
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