O Christmas Palm (by Thom)

O Christmas palm! O Christmas palm!
How lovely are your fronds.
O Christmas palm! O Christmas palm!
How lovely are your fronds.

...or something like that, anyway. I've mentioned to a few people about our Christmas tree and there seems to be a desire to see what I'm talking about. Because we didn't bring any Christmas decorations to speak of, and because you can't go and buy a spruce tree here, I surprised Amanda by buying a palm tree for Christmas. After bringing it home, I printed out a bunch of "Christmas-y" pictures from the internet and taped them to the leaves. Later, I found some Christmas decorations at a store and paid a ridiculous amount to put some lights and balls on the tree. As you can see, we've gotten a few Christmas gifts in the mail and put them around the tree, too. Every time I see the tree I have to laugh. Amanda gets a kick out of it as well. We both love showing it off to other people. It seems we're the only missionaries here odd enough to try something like this.
By the way, to see this picture larger and our other photos, click here.
Merry Christmas!