The shop facing the immense tree display is stocked and ready for holiday decorating as well. You can bet that department stores, even grocery stores are
marketing gifts and lining the shelves with holiday treats.
October 23rd. I think that's a record. I mean, decorating and tree-triming on Thanksgiving weekend is pushing it, in my opinion. The second to last weekend in October is just plain ridiculous! The leaves haven't even changed color or started to fall, we haven't turned our clocks back. And what about Halloween, Veterans' Day, Turkey? It hasn't frozen overnight yet, I can't even see my breath...Perhaps without all the signs and stages of Autumn and the coming of Winter leading up to it, Christmas comes early here. It couldn't be to take advantage of a few more shopping days, could it?
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Halloween has apparently made it big here in La Paz, so the grocery store had a big black and orange display with candy galore--up until a week ago, when it switched suddenly to Christmas. I guess it makes sense--without the Thanksgiving buffer in our U.S. calendars, we'd probably see the same thing! But it's kind of shocking.
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