Christmas Eve- Brazil Style

Christmas Eve is a much bigger holiday here in Sao Paulo than Christmas Day. 

Our neighbors, Alex and Dani Isnenghi, were nice enough to invite us over to their house to celebrate Christmas. 

They put on an incredible evening. We comically went down our social elevator to then come up their social elevator, when our two back service doors are literally right next to each other.

During the evening, we enjoyed the following activities: 

Dani put together a live nativity reading, where all of the children participated. Carli and Eliza were wise wo(men) and Gretta was one of the shepherds. You can see in the picture below that Carli had a tough time letting baby Jesus go :)

We also got to sing some Christmas carols (in Portuguese) with everyone in attendance. It was fun to sing some familiar songs, albeit in an unfamiliar language!

We also got to take some family pictures holding a "Feliz Natal" sign in front of their Christmas tree.