Christmas Market

In early December, we went to a Christmas Market in Verona, Italy, to do some Christmas shopping.  One year we may make it to a big one in Germany, but this one was nice, and it was only two hours from our house.  They had cute little booths set up selling ornaments, crafts, nativity items, spiced wine, and fresh baked breads, and sweets.  And chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

They also had a North Pole area set up for pictures with Santa. Babbo Natale, as he is called in Italy, looks the same as he does in the US, and the kids write the same letters (and the parents use the same warnings to be good), and he does the same thing on the night before Christmas.




 
 Ben wasn't too sure, so we took one together first, and just barely got one of Ben by himself.
 
 La Casa di Babbo Natale (The house of Father Christmas)