You know what kills me about Christmas down here? That nobody really seems to want it to be Christmas down here.
You’d think they’d love the fact that they’re in the middle of summer and having 80-degree-plus weather, are BBQing, and are holidaying with the kids…but nobody seems to really embrace it. They all grew up watching American and British holiday flicks and seem to want snow for the big day o’ Jesus’ birth.
Last week (only the second week of October) all the shops in Adelaide began putting up their Christmas displays and selling wrapping papers and such. Seeing all this so early was a bit freaky and can only be attributed to two things. One, Whoreloween — whoops, I mean Halloween — isn’t nearly as big over here as in the States, so no need to wait for the orange-and-black displays to come down before sticking up the $299 inflatable reindeer/santa/penguin snow-covered carousel. Two, the earlier stores can get these things up, the colder it is in Australia, making it seem like the snowy scenes aren’t such a dream.
But they are a dream. There is no snow down under come Christmas. Well, that is unless someone shells out the nearly $300 for this thing.
