One fun part of living in the UK is learning about and then adopting British traditions into our holiday celebrations. If you read the blog/look at our pictures, you may notice that, around Christmas time, there are often pictures of Bobby and myself wearing rather silly looking paper crowns. These come from my favorite and henceforth adopted British Christmas tradition known as the Christmas Cracker.
Basically it's a little toilet-paper roll wrapped in Christmas paper. You and a partner each pull on one side (very wishbone-like) and the cracker makes a rather pleasant popping sound as prizes jump out. These prizes almost always include a paper crown, a ridiculously cheap toy of some kind and a joke or riddle.
I don't know why I enjoy the Christmas Cracker so much. I think its just a lot of fun to see everyone sitting around the dinner table in a ridiculous paper crown.
3 comments:
did you eat any of that super rich english fruit cake doused in sugary frosting??
sorry to be a party pooper, but i for one happen to believe that those "crackers," are terrible for the environment. come on! little plastic doodads that nobody wants (i recall getting a mini-spoon or something)! a container with a volume 5 times greater than that of its contents! wrapping paper!
the hats are pretty goofy though, i'll give you that. just remember to recycle.
That cottage looks just like the one in the Holiday! Looks like you guys had a colder Christmas than we did in Yorktown!
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