Christmas in Africa

Last weekend, we went to Game.  Game is a store sort of like Target... but really no where near the caliber of Target-- 1/2 the quality and 3 times the price.  For that reason, we don't frequent Game much.  Another reason is that the kids ask us to buy them things about every 5 seconds.  But we couldn't find a trash can anywhere else in all of Maputo, so Game was a last resort. 
Game wanted $60 for a plastic trash can, so we ended up bailing on that and, instead of the trash can, we left with probably 20 other items. (Nalia was a huge influence on the number of items).  One of these was a fake white Christmas tree. 
As soon as we got home, the kids got out all the Christmas decorations and started decorating.  Because we had no proper lights for the tree, Nalia put pink plastic Easter grass on it.  Elio took out a plastic Santa being pulled by his reindeer ... it had been a decoration on top of our gingerbread house a couple of years ago.  He studied it for a minute and then looked at Nalia quizzically and asked, 'Are those gazelles driving Santa?'