Pictures of Portugal #13

The following are pictures of our Christmas away from home (far, far away!!!)

Bringing home our Christmas tree.  We went down the street to the forest and cut one down ourselves. Although it isn't your typical Douglas Fir.  They do not sell real Christmas trees here, and we just couldn't bring ourselves to buy an artificial one.

Christmas Eve morning (before we left to go to Fatochas for Christmas).  Our funky Christmas tree.  What do you think of our Christmas tree stand?  We used a decoration that was in the house already. 









Christmas Eve at Fatochas.  Her table was full of traditional Portuguese desserts (enough to feed about 30 people).

Christmas Eve dinner at Fatochas.

We finally got our traditional American turkey- the Sunday after Christmas.  They didn't have turkey's available in November (so no turkey for Thanksgiving).  And the traditional Portuguese Christmas dinner seems to be Bacalhau  (which is dried cod fish - it's better than it sounds).  Just out of curiosity - do our turkey's back home usually have the wings on them?  Seriously - I can't remember and this bird seemed to look different for some reason.  They did give me the bird with the neck attached (about a foot long) - I asked the butcher to chop it off.  He looked at me very strange when I told him he could keep it.

We introduced our puppy, Beethoven, to Tanner's new Christmas bunny.  Tanner was not happy about that.