In my holiday break, in January (thats summer) we go to the beach, have BBQ's, have picnics, go bushwalking, go on holidays like to Queensland and Perth etc... We try to avoid places like the Northern Territory cos it gets super super hot out in the desert! Um... we do heaps in our holidays.
I'll share with you my plan for this holiday coming up...
Christmas Eve I go to a church around the corner from my house and sing christmas carols at about 5pm (its still light then) then we have church friends over afterwards and when its dark we get out some candles, sit around in the dark and read the gospels outside by candle light...

thats beautiful... then we pray. Then at 11pm we have a service called watchnight at my church and that goes until 1am usually... Christmas Day we sit outside (or inside if its way too hot) and eat seafood and salad... santa comes (my family arn't christians) and we exchange presents. On Boxing Day my family goes to a river near us and has a picnic lunch. Nothing usually happens until New Years Eve when we all party on at a friends house or in Sydney... New Years Day, we go to the beach usually and chill out.... Then from the 2nd - 8th January I am volunteering at a Christian Camp over here called Teen Ranch. I do that all the time. I'm going to a beach wedding on the 9th... ummm going to a camp for leadership training from the 15th-21st jan... thats up in the blue mountains... just near me... ummmm going to the beach for a weekend with some friends of mine... and I haven't really got anything else planned...
Sorry if I rambled on for a bit, but now you tell me... whats it like to have a white christmas? and whats with thanksgiving (whats it all about) tell me all about your holidays!!

Sarah... xoxo