I had my first Christmas lunch today, and it's a traditional British one!
I was invited to join my friend's Christmas lunch with their family at 4pm on Christmas Day. Firstly, I had shampagne when we were waiting for the lunch getting ready. The Christmas lunch includes roasted turkey, stuffing, sausage, beacon roll, potato, carrots and parsnip, brussels sprouts, bread sauce (they said it's british!), gravy and cranberry jam.
Christmas crackers are another part of Christmas celebrations in the UK. I saw several 30-year-old Christmas crackers at my friend's house. They were bought when my friend's husband was a boy. He is about 50 years old now. Because he didn't pull the Chrismas crackers that year, his parents keep those crackers safely for him. They posted him these Christmas crackers few days ago. That is really cool.
Of course we had Christmas pudding! Two different kinds of christmas puddings were served with brandy cream. One is the traditional Christmas pudding, which is flamed after brandy was poured on it. The other one is the Christmas pudding with money in it! The adults hid several coins in the pudding. The lucky people would get the coins in their pudding. Afterward, I played some games with the children before they watched a movie.
On the Christmas Eve, I went the caroling service in the church. On the Christmas Day, I had a wonderful time with my friend and her family. This Christmas has become unforgetable because of these sweet people.
ps. the holly leaf is my seat reservation, so nice.. XD
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