Santa comes to Japan

Today is the 6th of December! Which means that Santa comes!!! Yes people, in Hungary, Germany, and maybe a few other countries, Santa comes on Saint Nicholas Day, and not Christmas! We clean and prepare our shoes, so Santa can put presents into them. The custom is that Santa brings the presents either in the evening of the 5th or morning of the 6th of December.

 I decided for the sake of our future family, that we are going to keep this custom alive even in Japan! So, I got these plastic boots, which look real cute and are sold for Christmas, got some European Santa shaped chocolate, and both of us bought a little present for one another. :)

Cute, aren't they? Of course the blue is mine :)

Santa shaped American chocolate. We also had
some European Kinder buenos.

Santa from Mom and Dad :) Kinder, Milka, Haribo, etc...all the delicious European stuff!!!

Also, with perfect timing, Mom's Santa arrived by post this evening too! Wow, tonns of delicious chocolate! And Christmas candy that we often give on this day, and also use for decorating the Christmas tree. Yummiiiiiiieeee.

 

I got this  chocolate advent calendar a few weeks ago. You can buy them in most import food selling supermarkets for about 600-800 yen. I hope I'll be able to make this Christmas like the one  at home. This is going to be the first ever Christmas that will be only the two of us, and I'll stay in Japan. Of course, it's going to be a bit lonely without family, but hey, we have skype :) and, as you can see, decoration and stuff for celebration you can find here as well. The meaning of Christmas here is not deep at all, but you can make it deep in your own heart. So why bother about how, or whether or not other people celebrate it ;)