1. The Music
Hands down, the very best thing. There are sooo many good songs that have come out of this holiday! I'll include some more videos at the bottom!
2. The Lights
Walking in town when all the streets, all the lamp posts, and all the trees are decorated with multi-colored lights is absolutely wonderful! Walking in a winter wonderland is much more cheerful when your path is lit up. This picture is from Sandefjord downtown!
3. The Food
Of course, what is Christmas without the delicious food? I'm talking clementines, walnuts, gløgg, gingerbread, and rib! Oh, all the meat being consumed is close to irresponsible. But do we care? Nay, we cheer!
Now I don't have much more to say, other than wish you a Merry Christmas! I hope the gift-shopping won't stress you out too much and that your belly will be full come Christmas Eve.
I'll leave you with a link to my absolute Spotify Christmas Playlist, composed by my father. It consists of a capella and jazzy Christmas music. Julemusikk <- Online Julemusikk <- In App
Also, here are some more videos, as promised.
what on earth is a gløgg?
ReplyDeleteI notice that Church going is not very high on your Christmas to do list? is that something in the past for Norwegians now? are there no midnight services? early morning masses?
Liked especially the second disk example.
Gløgg is the Scandinavian version of mulled wine. Its hot, spicy wine, basically, usually consumed during Christmas time. It tends not to be alcoholic anymore due to the variety of ages drinking it.
DeleteAnd no, church is not very high on my to do list, but it's not of the past. My family still drags us down to church early Christmas morning (24th in Norway) to watch some kids play out the nativity scene and listen to the priest trying to convince us this holiday is still about Jesus. It's dreadfully boring and not valuable to me at all.
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