Winging it in... Boston

If you'd come today you would've reached a whole nation. Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication.

This week I have finally managed to fit in the Christmas spirit thing and make up for missing the Carol Service last week. I still didn’t get to the Old North Church again, but I did manage to get to the Boston Pops Christmas Concert. This is slightly different to a carol service in that it doesn’t have all (or any of the readings- but I know the story, and I can still manage to recite Luke 2:1-20- my teachers would be so proud) so hearing the carols was good enough. Anyway, I am fairly certain that the Boston Symphony Orchestra made a much more melodic job of them than I would have done. I did also get to enjoy holiday classics, such as “Sleigh Ride”, “Jingle Bells” and the wonderful traditional tale of “The Night Before Christmas” by Clement Clarke Moore- again I think I am pretty much word perfect here too, but I’m not so sure my teacher would be quite so impressed.

On a similar theme was the lighting of the Fenway Christmas tree. Not quite such a prominent event as the one on The Common, but important to enough for Santa to make a trip all the way from the North Pole. With the wind chill factor meaning the thermometer was showing a temperature of 1F I’m sure he was feeling very at home! Personally I didn’t find the hot chocolate and warm holiday feelings were doing a whole lot to keep my feet at an acceptable temperature so I didn’t hang around. Then again I was doing a reasonable good impression of a marshmallow man so I’m sure I wasn’t a big loss to the group- who were averaging about 10 years of age.

I did redeem myself slightly on Saturday night by heading out for a party. Usually this is a bit of a novelty, but this week I thought I’d go for something a little different- all I will say on the subject is en el pueblo español puede hacer que me suena muy divertido! Laughing at me? Not so sure it was with me!

All my Christmas shopping is now complete and I am totally ready for the holiday season to commence. I have been more than generous with my own presents this year, bought myself everything I asked for, and I am very happy with all my self-given gifts. I did think I had been particularly good, and why risk other people disagreeing? Thinking ahead, I have some that are due to arrive in January, so the post Christmas blues shouldn’t set in for a few weeks, and then I have a plan for trip to NYC, so all is looking good for 2011.

Happy Holidays and best wishes for the new year.