Euro christmas

We headed to the other center of the universe - the Slovenian Hall - for a children's gathering and to stuff our faces with sausages and sauerkraut and from the look on everyone's faces in this photo with Santa, it looks like it's going to be a really jolly christmas.

You know what the photo says to me - "I know what want. Just fork it over old man."

You know everyone in this photo is either Slovenian or part Slovenian and I'm thinking that the gene for smiling and looking jolly in photographs must come from that side. I'm almost 100% sure that if you took a photo of that gene it would have one of those big happy smiley faces you see there.

Santa made a big entrance this year. Basically he walked in at the beginning when the temperature in the hall was still sub-zero. So he didn't get too hot under the collar wearing that itchy suit and having all these parents taking 10 billion photos of their yappy kids on his lap, and not being allowed to go get a beer or hot dog or go to the restroom until the last kid got what he or she deserved.

Then the clowns came in for comic relief.
I don't get it.
How come no one ever smiles with Santa.
But as soon as he's gone, the pearly whites come shining through.
Like when the rays of sun came out from behind the clouds, after God had made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights to cleanse the earth of everyone that was like George W.

Kids were running and jumping everywhere. It was like the Wizard of Oz, when the wicked witch of the west was squashed by Dorothy's mobile trailer-trash home.

And the King of the Elves took his throne back from the Coca-Cola inspired red and white suited jolly dude.

It was like the lord of the rings with little people, except no rings.


In the end, after everyone got their US corporation china-made with lead paint propaganda shovels and toys that missed a recall that few of the kids said thank you for.

All this kid wanted was a candy cane.


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