Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are celebrated a little bit different in every culture. These are just a few of the uniquely "mexican" things that we've been told about.
- Most Mexicans celebrate at midnight Christmas Eve. The kids only get a few presents, but almost no presents on the 24th or the 25th. Instead, they will go to "midnight" mass and then have a large meal and family celebration in the middle of the night. Like American families, they often have multiple family celebrations on different days.
- Ponche is a punch of hot sugar water and dried fruit. It's sort of like Mexican cider, I suppose, and is popular to drink at holiday parties. Fruit and cheese and sweet breads are common snack foods. They don't eat cookies.
- Like in the U.S., companies and social groups often have Christmas parties in the weeks before the holiday. These parties involve dinner at 9pm, dancing and drinks until midnight, and then a mariachi band with more dancing until 3am.
- Christmas trees are a new tradition here, that they have incorporated from images of Christmas movies and TV shows and such from the States. Nativity manger scenes, on the other hand, are very popular, and are at lots of places (stores, libraries, government offices, schools) where they are not in the U.S. Sometimes the mary is really huge and out of proportion, and sometimes the baby Jesus is, too.
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