The Danish celebrate the days of advent leading to Christmas (Jul) and yesterday was the beginning of the first week of advent. What I have enjoyed the most so far are the candles! They are everywhere. They sell them like water at every super market and they have a number system - so you have a candle you burn each week leading to Christmas, you can also have a long candle that is marked like a ruler with 24 days that burns each day of December, you also put candles on your Christmas tree. I have yet to light any of these, but I did ask Chris to pick up a fire extinguisher on his way home today just to be prepared. These folk love light - which is just as well because it's 8 am as I write this and the sun hasn't even come up yet! Even our residential street gets dolled up, have a look:
We went last night to watch the lighting of the Christmas tree downtown, we were warned that it was a kids event but it was still cute. For several minutes we were trying to figure out what the purpose of having people dressed up as pandas with flames on their heads, dancing around the Christmas tree. Then we made the connection: COP 15!! Talk about continuing to send the message to all ages. The mayor then spoke about how this city will soon play host... I was so proud of myself for understanding what she said! Enjoy the video, and Chris' commentary!!
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