Does everybody know what an advent calendar is? Rob's family spent so much time in Germany when he and his brother and sister were kids that he's not sure if it's a mostly German thing or if it's universal. An advent calendar can take many forms, but for Rob it is a box of chocolates with one chocolate for each day of advent (each day in December leading up to Christmas, for you heathens). Each chocolate is behind its own cardboard window and every day you find and eat (for breakfast, preferably) one delicious chocolate in solemn anticipation of the coming celebration of Christ's birth. (Actually, the best part is when you forget about it for a few days and then have to eat three or four pieces of delicious chocolate in solemn anticipation of the coming celebration of Christ's birth. Plus, when your little brother is six years younger than you, he doesn't always know what day it is, so you can..., um, wait, that story doesn't exactly fit with the Christmas spirit... Nevermind.)
Anyway, the calendars are usually decorated with Christmas imagery or winter scenes, or a house with 24 windows, etc. But then there's this article (click to read):
"What says Christmas like a serial killer?"How about that? Here's the pic:
And they say Germans don't have a sense of humor...
2 comments:
None of the wives I have met here know what it is and I couldnt find one anywhere last year. Maybe this year , since the commissary even carries Lebkuchen now.
Julia
I grew up with Advent calendars, but maybe it's because I am Swedish and German?? I dunno. I wonder if I'll be able to find one around here. The Lindt ones are the best!!
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